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 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Mansouri executed in Kerman on June 1
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahriar Khalafi executed in Qom on June 1
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Karim Shah Mohammadi executed in Qom on June 1
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Masoumeh Karbakhsh Executed in Kerman on June 1
- MAY 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Death sentence for political prisoner Mohammad-Amin Mahdavi Shayesteh upheld
MAY 31, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump pardons Larry Hoover, notorious drug kingpins
Even as he escalates U.S. drug war rhetoric
MAY 31, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Patricia Krenwinkel is recommended for parole
A follower of Charles Manson's sect, convicted of 7 murders, she has been detained for 56 years
MAY 30, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Judge sentences Adam Slater to death
MAY 29, 2025VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: KOREAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FATHER WHO DEFENDED DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
A Korean man living in Vietnam has been sentenced to death for brutally murdering his father, who had flown in from South Korea to intervene in a family dispute and support his daughter-in-law.
MAY 29, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SUPREME COURT ACQUITS ISLAMIST LEADER ON DEATH ROW
Bangladesh's top court on May 27, 2025 overturned a conviction against a key leader of the country's main Islamist party, who had been on death row since being sentenced under the regime ousted last year.
MAY 29, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Death sentence of Ronald Lopez Andrade thrown out
- MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Amin Asadi executed in Isfahan on May 28
MAY 28, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE IN CHILD MURDER CASE
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has commuted the death sentence of a man convicted of abducting and murdering his six-year-old nephew, instead sentencing him to life imprisonment until his last breath.
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pedram Madani executed in Karaj on May 28
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ehsan Hosseinzehi executed in Khash on May 28
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahram Abbaszadeh and Alireza Ahmadi executed in Isfahan on May 28
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men, including a juvenile offendere, executed in Karaj on May 28
Amir Hossein Mohammadi, Majid Bahrami, Seyed Abbas Laki Khosrokhani, Hojjat Havasi Geravand, and Afshin Azizi
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hadi Farhadi executed in Shiraz on May 28
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Taleb Ahmadpour executed in Ahvaz on May 28
- MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Shahmoradi and Farhoud Hosseini executed in Kermanshah on May 28
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Safar Kamali executed in Qom on May 28
- MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahriar Aliabadi executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on May 28
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khodamorad Keifari and Alimorad Ranjbaran executed in Qazvin on May 28
- MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Taleb Ahmadpour executed in Ahvaz on May 28
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Assadollahi and Abbas Jan Mohammadi also executed in Ghezel Hesar on May 28
- MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farhad Hosseini and Shahmoradi… executed in Kermanshah on May 28
- MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shoeib Abdolhagh Mohammadi executed in Taybad on May 28
- MAY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
RAN - Amir Ebrahimi and Rahim Amiri executed in Karaj on May 27
- MAY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 70th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
- MAY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Amini and Mehdi Moghaddam executed in Qazvin on May 27