Archive timeline
2025
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2025, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2025
JULY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Rahmani executed in Ahvaz on July 8
- JULY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 kurdish political prisoners sentenced to death
- JULY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amin Khosravi and Saeed Asadzadeh Executed in Tabriz on July 7
JULY 7, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING SIX MEMBERS OF A FAMILY
The IV additional district and sessions court in Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) on June 27, 2025 sentenced 50-year-old Battina Appalaraju to death for killing six members of a family, including two children, in a revenge killing in April 2021.
JULY 7, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 4 TO LIFE TERM IN JHENAIDAH
A Jhenaidah court on July 7, 2025 sentenced four people to death and four others to life imprisonment for killing Sub-Inspector (SI) Mirajul Islam in 2011.
- JULY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Yarbigi executed in Arak on July 7
JULY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Ryan Cole formally sentenced to death
JULY 5, 2025IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. Interesting controversy after the non-condemnation to death of Bryan Kohberger
- JULY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - UN Experts Warn Iran Against Renewed Wave of Repression After Ceasefire
JULY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris transferred to an undisclosed location
The French couple at the centre of yet another kidnapping by Iran
- JULY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - French couple face death penalty on spying charges
Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris
JULY 3, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR EX-MILITARY DOCTOR IN KEVIN MORAIS MURDER CASE
The Federal Court has upheld the death sentence imposed on former military doctor R Kunaseegaran over the murder of deputy public prosecutor Kevin Morais 10 years ago, FMT reported on July 1st, 2025.
JULY 3, 2025VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: 11 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
The Hanoi People's Court sentenced two suspended police officers to death for transporting drugs and "assisting and covering up" in the trafficking of nearly 140 kg of narcotics.
JULY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri sentenced to death
JULY 2, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: PHC UPHOLDS MAN’S DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING MINOR DAUGHTER
Peshawar High Court has upheld sentence of death awarded to a convict by a trial court for killing his five-year-old daughter over suspicion of her legitimacy, Dawn reported on June 30, 2025.
JULY 2, 2025South KoreaDEATH PENALTYSOUTH KOREA: TWO DEATH ROW INMATES DIE, LEAVING 57 REMAINING ON DEATH ROW
The fact that two death row inmates died last year has been revealed belatedly. They died due to advanced age and illness while being in a state where capital punishment was not carried out for a long time.
- JULY 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jabar Pourmohammadi Maghani executed in Zanjan on July 2
JULY 1, 2025IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: CRIMINAL COURT GIVES DEATH SENTENCE TO TWO OVER EXECUTION OF TOP CLERIC SADR
An Iraqi criminal court on June 30, 2025 sentenced two men to death for involvement in the execution of prominent Shia cleric Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister during the brutal crackdown of former dictator Saddam Hussein on religious dissent.
- JULY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Ali Abedi executed in Ahar on July 1
- JUNE 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - New bill approved by parliament to punish collaborating with “hostile groups”
Death penalty for a wide range of offences
JUNE 30, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MURDER OF FRIEND’S CHILDREN
The High Court in Alor Setar has sentenced a man to death for murdering his friend’s two young children six years ago, Free Malaysia Today reported on June 30, 2025.
JUNE 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 man exewcuted in Taybad on June 30
Unidentified Afghan man
- JUNE 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmadreza Didban and Mozaffar Najari executed in Shiraz on June 30
JUNE 30, 2025DelawareDEATH PENALTYUSA - Delaware. General Assembly passes 1st leg of amendment to ban death penalty
It will have to be re-voted next year
JUNE 29, 2025JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: 'TWITTER KILLER' HANGED IN FIRST EXECUTION SINCE 2022
Japan executed on June 27, 2025 a man convicted of the 2017 serial murders of nine people near Tokyo, the government said, marking the country's first hanging since July 2022.
- JUNE 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Babak Mostafavi executed in Neyshabur on June 28
JUNE 27, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Adel Ramos' death sentence formalised
JUNE 27, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Ronnie Walker sentenced to death
- JUNE 26, 2025VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM ENDS DEATH PENALTY FOR 8 CRIMES, MAY SPARE REAL ESTATE TYCOON
Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon imprisoned in the country’s largest financial fraud case, AP reported on June 26, 2025.
- JUNE 26, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTY
2025 WORLD DRUG DAY
HoC signs the collective statement