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 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Markazi province on May 19
MAY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Gholibeigi executed in Qom on May 19
MAY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Zarei and Mosib Farhadi executed in Shiraz on May 19
MAY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdullah Pashan executed in Kahnouj on May 19
MAY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Setareh Taherlou, executed in Damghan on May 19
MAY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali-Asghar Alami executed in Damghan on May 19
MAY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdoljabar Jamalzi executed in Bandar Abbas on May 19
MAY 19, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 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.
MAY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sirus Jafari executed in Kermanshah on May 18
MAY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Baghbani executed in Nishapur on May 18
- MAY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Sabzevar on May 18
MAY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Armin Bahrami executed in Karaj on May 18
MAY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hashem Mirzaei executed in Ahvaz on May 18
- MAY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mojtaba Mansouri executed in Yazd on May 18
MAY 17, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 3 MEN CONVICTED OF RAPING MINORS EXECUTED
Three sex offenders convicted of sexually assaulting minors were executed in China on May 15, 2025, according to an official statement from the Supreme People's Court (SPC), the country's highest court.
- MAY 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behrooz Fathollahi executed in Ilam on May 17
MAY 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammadvali Ahangari executed in Khorramabad on May 17
- MAY 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Bani-Asad executed in Borazjan on May 17
- MAY 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Adnan Labakpour and Reza … executed in Ilam on May 17
- MAY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 8 men, 1 woman executed in Ghezel Hesar on May 15
On charges of membership in ISIS
MAY 15, 2025GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: SIERRA LEONEAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING BRITISH NATIONAL
Banjul High Court, presided over by Justice Ebrima Jaiteh, on May 12, 2025 sentenced Augustine Bangura, a Sierra Leonean national, to death having found him guilty of killing a British national, Shakina Chinedu.
MAY 15, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Glen Rogers, 62, White, was executed on May 15
MAY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Dahmordeh executed in Zabol on May 15
450th execution of 2025 in Iran
MAY 15, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Ryan Cole, 33, White, sentenced to death
MAY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Akbar Ansari executed in Isfahan on May 15
- MAY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdullah ... executed in Zabol on 15 May
MAY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hafizeh Baluch Zehi executed in Tehran on May 15
17th woman executed in Iran in 2025
MAY 15, 2025UtahDEATH PENALTYUSA - Utah. Supreme Court confirms new trial for Douglas Stewart Carter
- MAY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jafar Ghorbani executed in Isfahan on May 15
MAY 15, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYOVER 128,000 AFGHAN REFUGEES REPATRIATED FROM PAKISTAN IN SIX WEEKS, IOM SAYS
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports that more than 128,000 Afghan refugees have been repatriated from Pakistan since early April, the majority of whom were forcibly deported.