Archive timeline
2025
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2025, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 2,346
- Countries where they were recorded
- 23
- News items in the archive
- 2,356
Latest news of 2025
JUNE 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Heidarzadeh executed in Maragheh on June 8
JUNE 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Mashhad on June 7
Zobeid Ali Maleki, Yashar Haghdoust, Jafar Veisi and a man only identified as Salim
JUNE 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaser Amini and Mehdi Moghadam executed in Qazvin on June 6
- JUNE 5, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Firing squad, electric chair, nitrogen gas, injection: US expands execution methods
- JUNE 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Afshin Yari executed in Malayer on June 2
JUNE 5, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN RELEASE OR EASE SENTENCES OF OVER 2,500 PRISONERS AHEAD OF EID
The Taliban have released 1,559 prisoners and shortened the sentences of 950 others on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, the group’s supreme court announced on June 4, 2025.
JUNE 4, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HC UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES OF PRADEEP, LIAKAT
The High Court (HC) on June 2, 2025 upheld the death sentences of former OC Pradeep Kumar Das and former inspector Liakat Ali in the widely discussed murder case of Major (Retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.
JUNE 4, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 2 MEN GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING MINOR SISTERS
A special SC/ST court in Hathras (Uttar Pradesh) has sentenced two men in their 30s to death for murdering two minor sisters in their sleep and attempting to kill their parents over a property dispute, Times of India reported on May 30, 2025.
JUNE 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmadullah Esmaeili executed in Ghezel Hesar on June 4
- JUNE 3, 2025LesothoDEATH PENALTY
13 COUNTRIES URGE LESOTHO TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Lesotho has been urged by 13 countries to formally abolish the death penalty, maintain its de facto moratorium on executions, and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR-OP2), which seeks to e
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behnam Ghafari executed in Yasuj on June 3
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naser Nabizadeh executed in Urmia on June 3
Or June 2
JUNE 3, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 2 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 8-YR-OLD GIRL
A special court in Madhubani (Bihar) on May 31, 2025 sentenced two men, Sushil Rai and Om Prakash Jha, to death for the gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old dalit girl.
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Behzadi executed in Manujan on June 3
- JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shoaib Abdulhaq Mohammadi executed in Taybad on June 3
JUNE 3, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Scott Panetti Dies on Death Row of Natural Causes on May 26
Prisoner in Landmark Competency Case
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholi Faramarzi executed in Tabriz on June 3
- JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Kheradmand executed in Ghezel Hesar on 2 June
- JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - In May, more than 5 executions per day
157 according to Hrana, 163 to Hengaw, 174 to HoC
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nadim Davoudi executed in Kahnouj on June 2
575 executions in Iran since the beginning of 2025
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Navid Hedavand Khani and Naeem Naseri executed in Hamedan on June 2
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Sabeghi executed in Kahnouj on June 2
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel Hesar on June 2
Alireza Shahbazi, Ali Karami Nasr, Ali Abbasi
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 executions in Ghezel Hesar on on June 2
Ali Karami Nasr, Alireza Shahbazi, Ali Abbas-Moghaddam, Sajad Nabizadeh, Yasin Aghaei, Nazir Mohammad, Behzad..., + 2 unidentified
- JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Amin Rastegari executed in Semnan on June 2
- JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Habib Almasi and Jebreal Hashemzadeh, two cousins, executed in Isfahan on June 2
JUNE 2, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. New DNA testing proves innocence of Kenneth Clair
Man who has spent 40 years in prison
- JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahmirza Rahmati executed in Khorramabad on June 1
- JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jomaa Narouei executed in Zahedan on June 1
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Lejei and Fakhrollah Shiruzehi executed in Bam on June 1