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
MAY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farman Kooshki and Yashar Jafari executed in Karaj on May 27
MAY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Yari and Rahim Amiri executed in Karaj (Central) on May 27
MAY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shirzad Zamani executed in Khorramabad on May 27
MAY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Arjangi executed in Karaj (Central) on May 27
MAY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aziz Sedaghat executed in Rasht on May 27
- MAY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Amini and Mehdi Moghaddam executed in Qazvin on May 27
MAY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYRAN - Amir Ebrahimi and Rahim Amiri executed in Karaj on May 27
MAY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 70th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
MAY 26, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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.
MAY 26, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: 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.
MAY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zabihollah Sarani executed in Zahedan on May 26
MAY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morad Dalayi-Milan executed in Maku on May 26
MAY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Shirzayi executed in Birjand on May 26
MAY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jafar Panahi wins Palme d'Or at Cannes
Panahi Returned To Iran
MAY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 women and 4 men executed in Birjand on May 26
None of them has been identified yet
MAY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Akbar Mirzaei and Sanjar Nawabi executed in Kerman on May 26
MAY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Abdoli executed in Dezful on May 26
MAY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on May 26
Farman Koushaki, Yashar Jafari, Akbar Ebrahimi + 2 Unk.
MAY 25, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: 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.
MAY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Rezaei and Mobarak Rahmani executed in Qom on May 25
- MAY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Barzegari and Mohammadreza Zare Moayedi executed in Shiraz on May 25
MAY 25, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The Rev. Jeff Hood nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Has witnessed 9 executions
- MAY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rahman Khodakarami executed in Shiraz on May 25
MAY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Shirvani executed in Kahnuj on May 25
- MAY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Homayoun Amjad executed in Zanjan on May 24
- MAY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Vahid Karimizadeh and Farhad Farahnak executed in Qom on May 24
- MAY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Tahmas Jahaniyan executed in Nahavand on May 24
- MAY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hessam Farhadi executed in Borujerd on May 24
MAY 22, 2025JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: SSC HANDS DOWN DEATH SENTENCE, MULTIPLE PRISON TERMS OVER DEADLY ATTACK ON POLICE PATROL
The State Security Court (SSC) on May 19, 2025 issued a death sentence and multiple prison terms over a 2022 attack that claimed the lives of four security officers and wounded several others.
MAY 22, 2025TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Oscar Smith, 75, White, was executed on May 22, 2025
19th execution in the US in 2025