2025

JORDAN: 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.

USA - Tennessee. Oscar Smith, 75, White, was executed on May 22, 2025

19th execution in the US in 2025

USA - Oklahoma. Governor Scott ratified SB 599, which allows for the sentencing to death of child sex offenders

It will go into effect on 1 November, but does not actually apply for now.

IRAN - Rouhollah Gahramani executed in Tabriz on May 21

IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on May 21

Alim Barahouyi, Morteza Arayeshgar and Jahanshah Afshari

IRAN Mohammadreza Beiki Firoozabadi executed on May 21

In unspecified prison, Yazd probably

PAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS ZAHIR JAFFER'S DEATH SENTENCE

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on May 20, 2025 upheld the death penalty of Zahir Zakir Jaffer, a Pakistani-American, who was convicted of murdering 27-year-old Noor Mukadam, daughter of a former diplomat, a lawyer of Mukadam’s father said.

IRAN - Three men executed in Birjand on May 21

Naser Dahar, Ghanbar Ghaffari, Nooreddin Mohammadzadeh

IRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on May 11, 14, and 21

Mohammad Amin Kolsoomi, Jafar Ghorbani, Mohammad Naeim Daneshi and Jaber Shehkaramzehi

IRAN - Yasin Hosseinzadeh executed in Tehran on May 21

IRAN - Jahanshah Afshari and Aleem Barahoee executed in Ghezel Hesar on May 21

IRAN - Saeed Kashani executed in Hamedan on May 21

IRAN - Abdolrahim Nazari executed in Zahedan on May 21

IRAN - 3 men executed in Birjand on May 21

Naser Dehar, Qanbar Ghaffari, and Nouraldin Mohammadzadeh

IRAN - Saeed Kashani executed in Hamedan on May 21

IRAN - Arman Khanbeigi executed in Isfahan on May 21

IRAN - 3 men executed in Zanjan on May 21

Ali Moharami, Kavous Golshan and Mohsen Hesari

IRAN - 5 men executed in Yazd on May 21

Mohammadreza Dehghan Dehnouri, Javad Rezaei, Noorveis Achak Zehi, Vali Shahrbabaki, Reza Beig

IRAN - Nader Mostafavi executed in Yasuj on May 21

IRAN - Yousef Esmaeili executed in Bandar Abbas on May 20

IRAN - Dual Iranian-British national Nasrin Roshan conditionally released on May 20

Arrested for her participation in overseas protests related to the death of Mahsa Amini

INDIA: SUPREME COURT FREES MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN 2013 RAPE-MURDER CASE

The Supreme Court of India has acquitted a man accused of raping and murdering a child in 2013 in Maharashtra’s Thane, citing the probe agency’s “shabby investigation” and the “overzealous” approach of the court that sentenced him, First Post reported on

IRAN - Goran Qaderi executed in Sanandaj on May 20

USA - Texas. Matthew Johnson, 49, Black, was executed on May 20

18th execution of the year in the US

CHINA: EX-POLITICAL ADVISER GETS SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY

Han Yong, a former senior national political adviser, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on May 19, 2025 for accepting bribes, a court in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region announced.

USA - Indiana. Benjamin Ritchie, 45, White, was executed on May 20

IRAN - Meysam Khazaei executed in Qom on May 20

IRAN - Yaser Jalilian Executed in Kermanshah on May 20

IRAN - Abdoljabar Jamalzi executed in Bandar Abbas on May 19

CHINA: FORMER CHIP BOSS GETS SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE IN CORRUPTION CASE

A Chinese court handed Zhao Weiguo, the former chairman of semiconductor firm Tsinghua Unigroup, a suspended death sentence on May 14, 2025 after he was found guilty of corruption and embezzlement, state broadcaster CCTV reported.