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2025
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2025, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2025
MAY 14, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 GET DEATH PENALTY, 5 LIFE TERM IN TRIPLE MURDER CASE IN MUNSHIGANJ
A Speedy Trial Tribunal in Dhaka on May 8, 2025 awarded death penalty to three accused and life term imprisonment to five others in a triple murder case in Munshiganj.
MAY 14, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR KILLING FRIEND IN FIGHT OVER CAP
A High Court in Kano has sentenced one Adamu Isma’ila Arzai to death by hanging for killing his friend during a fight over a cap, Daily Post reported on May 13, 2025.
MAY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moshir Osmanzadeh executed in Urmia on May 14
MAY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Miri and Sajjad Moradi executed in Karaj on May 14
MAY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Soleimani executed in Shiraz on May 14
MAY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ebrahim Esfandiari executed in Mashhad on May 14
MAY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholamabbas Cheraghian executed in Karaj on May 14
MAY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Naeem Danesh executed in Isfahan on May 14
MAY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on May 14
Naser Hamidi, Isa Ahmadi, Hadi Soleimani
- MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 68th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
- MAY 13, 2025IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ’S JUSTICE MINISTER SAYS PRISONS ARE AT DOUBLE CAPACITY AS AMNESTY LAW TAKES EFFECT
As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an interview on May 3, 2025.
MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Reza Sabzi executed in Malayer on May 13
16 at time of crime
MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behrouz Baharvand executed in Khorramabad on May 13
MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahtab Amiri, a woman, executed in Shiraz on May 13
MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Joghatay Executed in Gonabad on May 13
- MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed prisoner executed in Karaj on May 13
MAY 13, 2025DEATH PENALTYUSA - Georgia. Governor Kemp signs HB 123
To Protect People with Intellectual Disability from the Death Penalty
- MAY 12, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTY
ITALY - Oshima "The hanging"
In Perugia, on May 14
MAY 12, 2025IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: GET THEM LEGAL ASSISTANCE, SAYS HC ON 3 INDIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN INDONESIA
The Delhi high court on May 2, 2025 directed the Indian Consulate in Indonesia to take urgent steps to ensure proper legal representation and assistance for three Indian nationals sentenced to death by an Indonesian court.
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehran Nasri Zar executed in Karaj on May 12
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Gorgan on May 12
Mahboobeh Khosrow-Nejad, Firooz (Erfan) Aliyari, Safa Qaradashi
- MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jalil Azizi executed in Arak on May 12
- MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kourosh Jalili executed in Karaj on May 12
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Hojatzadeh executed in Isfahan on May 12
427 executions in Iran nel 2025
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Arak on May 12
Mohammad Abdi, Nemat Pirizali and Jalil Azizi
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Abolhosseini and Asrar Amani executed in Shiraz on May 12
- MAY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Haghi executed in Yazd on May 11
MAY 11, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: WOMAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING COUSIN OVER PROPERTY ISSUE
Rawalpindi female additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) on May 10, 2025 handed down death sentence to a 22-year-old woman for killing her paternal cousin over property and marriage issues.
MAY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fereydoun Mohammadi and Mohammad-Ali Miri executed in Zahedan on May 11
MAY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran sentences another political prisoner to death: Ehsan Faridi