2025

USA - Delaware. Death penalty ban in constitution passes Senate committee

USA - California. ACLU Joins Calls to Gov. Newsom to Commute All Death Sentences

IRAN - 3 political prisoners executed on charges of espionage for Israel

IRAN - Israeli Air Force hit Evin Prison, symbol of political imprisonment

Victims among officers, not among prisoners

USA - Mississippi. Richard Jordan, 79, White, was executed on June 25

By lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman

INDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 11-YEAR OLD GIRL

A special Pocso court in Jalpaiguri sentenced 31-year old Haripada Roy to death for the rape and murder of an 11-year old girl, categorising it as a "rarest of rare" case, Times of India reported on June 11, 2025.

IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on June 25

IRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Mashhad on June 25

IRAN - Fereydoun Naziri and Hadi Nasri executed in Qom on June 24

USA - Florida. Judge throws out jury death sentence for Ysrael Granda

USA - Florida. Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, White, was executed on June 24

Per lethal injection

USA - Delaware. House Approves Constitutional Amendment to Abolish Death Penalty

VIETNAM: DEATH PENALTIES HANDED TO THREE DRUG TRAFFICKERS

A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced three drug traffickers to death for smuggling and selling more than 50 kilos of heroin and synthetic drugs, state media reported on June 18, 2025.

IRAN - Azim Mohammadi executed in Qom un June 24

SAUDI ARABIA: 37 ETHIOPIANS AMONG SCORES OF FOREIGN NATIONALS AT ‘IMMINENT RISK’ OF EXECUTION

At least 37 Ethiopian men are facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia for drug-related offences, according to

IRAN - Javad Mohammadi executed in Khorramabad on June 24

IRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Qom on June 24

CHINA: FORMER NATIONAL POLITICAL ADVISER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CORRUPTION

Liu Yuejin, a former national political adviser, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes of more than 121 million yuan ($16.83 million), a court in Fujian province announced on June 23, 2025.

IRAN - Mohammad-Amin Mahdavi Shayesteh executed in Ghezel-Hesar on June 23

IRAN - Habib Soleimani executed in Arak on June 23

IRAN - Concern for the fate of Ahmadreza Djalali

Doctor accused of spying for Israel

IRAN - Hedayat Manshari executed in Ardabil on June 22

IRAN - Majid Mosayebi executed on June 22

On charges of Espionage for Israel, hours after strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites

IRAQ: DEATH AND LIFE SENTENCES ISSUED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

A court in Najaf, southern Iraq, on June 22, 2025 handed down death and life sentences to four individuals convicted of drug trafficking.

IRAN - Report on the first week of the Iran- Israel war

Hengaw special report

USA - Texas. Michelle Lyons watched nearly 300 executions

USA - Louisiana. Federal judge vacates death penalty for Todd Wessinger

Tanzania - Lissu, nonviolent opposition leader, faces death sentence

On summary charges of ‘high treason”

AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN FLOG THREE IN TAKHAR AND MAIDAN WARDAK AMID ONGOING PUBLIC PUNISHMENTS

Taliban have publicly flogged three people, including a woman, in separate incidents in northern and central Afghanistan, the group’s Supreme Court announced on June 18, 2025.

BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE OF STEPDAUGHTER IN KERANIGANJ

A Dhaka court has sentenced a man to death for the rape of his stepdaughter in Dhaka’s South Keraniganj four years ago.