2025

PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE-MURDER OF STEPSISTER

Rawalpindi Additional District and Sessions Judge Afshan Ijaz Sufi has sentenced a man, Azhar, to two counts of death penalty, seven years in prison, and a fine of Rs400,000 after he was found guilty of raping and brutally murdering his minor stepsister a

BANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH 17 YEARS AFTER COLLEGE STUDENT MURDER

A court in Bangladesh on May 20, 2025 handed down the death penalty to three individuals over the murder of a college student in Bhairab Upazila of Kishoreganj, 17 years after the killing took place.

IRAN - Sajad Piri executed in public on May 27

IRAN - Farman Kooshki and Yashar Jafari executed in Karaj on May 27

IRAN - Hossein Yari and Rahim Amiri executed in Karaj (Central) on May 27

IRAN - Shirzad Zamani executed in Khorramabad on May 27

IRAN - Hamed Arjangi executed in Karaj (Central) on May 27

IRAN - Aziz Sedaghat executed in Rasht on May 27

BANGLADESH: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING TRADER AFTER ABDUCTION IN SIRAJGANJ

A Sirajganj court on March 20, 2025 sentenced six men to death for abducting and murdering vegetable trader Nazmul Islam in 2017.

TAIWAN: CEC APPROVES NUCLEAR POWER REFERENDUM, REJECTS DEATH PENALTY VOTE

Taiwan's Central Election Commission (CEC) on May 23, 2025 approved one of two public referendum questions proposed by opposition lawmakers in the Legislature Yuan, but was harshly criticized by the opposition for rejecting the other proposal.

IRAN - Zabihollah Sarani executed in Zahedan on May 26

IRAN - Morad Dalayi-Milan executed in Maku on May 26

IRAN - Hamid Shirzayi executed in Birjand on May 26

IRAN - Jafar Panahi wins Palme d'Or at Cannes

Panahi Returned To Iran

IRAN - 3 women and 4 men executed in Birjand on May 26

None of them has been identified yet

IRAN - Ali Akbar Mirzaei and Sanjar Nawabi executed in Kerman on May 26

IRAN - Reza Abdoli executed in Dezful on May 26

IRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on May 26

Farman Koushaki, Yashar Jafari, Akbar Ebrahimi + 2 Unk.

IRAN - Mahmoud Shirvani executed in Kahnuj on May 25

PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SECTARIAN MURDER OF TWO RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS IN 2016

An anti-terrorism court on May 15, 2025 sentenced Syed Mohsin Talha, aka Pagal, to death on four counts for the targeted killings of two ulemas — Mufti Ghulam Akbar and Mufti Kamran Hussain.

IRAN - Alireza Rezaei and Mobarak Rahmani executed in Qom on May 25

IRAN - Mohammad Barzegari and Mohammadreza Zare Moayedi executed in Shiraz on May 25

USA - The Rev. Jeff Hood nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Has witnessed 9 executions

IRAN - Rahman Khodakarami executed in Shiraz on May 25

IRAN - Homayoun Amjad executed in Zanjan on May 24

IRAN - Vahid Karimizadeh and Farhad Farahnak executed in Qom on May 24

IRAN - Tahmas Jahaniyan executed in Nahavand on May 24

IRAN - Hessam Farhadi executed in Borujerd on May 24

USA - Florida. Gov. DeSantis signs expansive capital punishment legislation into law

UNITED NATIONS - Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 58th session