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
- JUNE 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Haghverdi executed in Qom on June 18
JUNE 18, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: SYABU TRAFFICKER’S DEATH SENTENCE REPLACED WITH LIFE IMPRISONMENT
A self-employed man, who received the capital punishment for trafficking in syabu, escaped the hangman’s noose after the Court of Appeal in Kota Kinabalu on June 17, 2025 substituted it with an imprisonment for life.
JUNE 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men execute in Tabriz on June 18
Hadi Ahmadian, Abbas Partovi, Mohammad Shokri
JUNE 17, 2025KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: AFTER 18 YEARS IN JAIL, COURT APOLOGISES TO MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
Lulu Adu was just 17 when he was sentenced to die in Kenya. Eighteen years later, a court finally acknowledged its mistake — and set him free, The Star reported on June 17, 2025.
JUNE 17, 2025SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: DRUG TRAFFICKER, 58, AVOIDS DEATH PENALTY BY 0.01G, SENTENCED TO 31 YEARS’ JAIL
A 58-year-old man has been sentenced to 31 years’ jail in Singapore over drug trafficking offences that saw him avoid the death penalty by 0.01g, The Straits Times reported on June 12, 2025.
JUNE 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz on June 17
Teimur Pouladvand, Nezam Moradi, Mahmoud Dehghan and Ali Akbar Younesi
JUNE 16, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTYUSA - Antonio Veronese updates us on the case of John Huggins
John Huggins, 63, White, on death row in Florida
JUNE 16, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: JOURNALIST EXECUTED AFTER SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON
A prominent Saudi journalist who was arrested in 2018 and convicted on terrorism and treason charges has been executed, the kingdom said. Activist groups maintain that the charges against him were trumped up.
- JUNE 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Esmail Fekri executed in Ghezel Hesar on June 16
On charges of espionage for Israel
JUNE 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Nazemi executed in Ahvaz on June 16
JUNE 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Dehghan executed in Shiraz on June 16
- JUNE 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Mohammadi executed in Khorramabad on June 16
- JUNE 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Davoudi and Houshang Morovati executed in Yasui on June 16
- JUNE 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yashar Amini executed in Yasuj on June 15
- JUNE 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Gonabad on June 15
- JUNE 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jafar Ezati (Ezzati) executed in Zanjan on June 15
- JUNE 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Any expression of joy at Israel's attacks will be prosecuted as a crime
JUNE 14, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Regime muzzles media with grim death penalty warning
- JUNE 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Faramarz … executed on June 14 in Kermanshah
JUNE 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Joghatay executed in Sabzevar on June 14
- JUNE 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Vaezi executed in Semnan on June 13
JUNE 13, 2025South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Stephen Stanko, 57, White, was executed on June 13
JUNE 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR and Hengaw: Warns of Execution of Defendants Accused of Espionage for Israel
JUNE 13, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Jury sentences Oscar Rosales to death
55, Hispanic
- JUNE 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Vaezi executed in Semnan on June 13
- JUNE 12, 2025JapanDEATH PENALTY
EX-MONGOLIA LEADER URGES JAPAN LAWMAKERS TO END DEATH PENALTY
A former Mongolian president known for abolishing his country's death penalty urged Japanese lawmakers in a recent interview to take the same step despite the public's continued support for executions.
JUNE 12, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: KOLKATA HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF EX WHO STABBED GIRL 45 TIMES
Calcutta High Court on June 11, 2025 commuted the death penalty awarded to a 24-year-old, for stabbing his ex-girlfriend 45 times, to life imprisonment without remission for 40 years.
JUNE 12, 2025OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. John Hanson, 61, Black, was executed on June 12
Per lethal injection, the 22nd execution of 2025 in the US
- JUNE 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shapour Ashkani executed in Shushtar on June 12
- JUNE 11, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: COURT CLERK SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR LAWYER'S MURDER
A Dera Ghazi Khan court clerk has been sentenced to death and fined Rs600,000 after being found guilty of murdering a junior lawyer within the premises of the district court.