2025

IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Miyaneh on May 11

IRAN - Alireza Sedighi executed in Shahroud on May 11

USA - Ohio. Death sentence of Donna Roberts overturned

Not the guilty verdict

USA - Oklahoma. Governor ratified HB 1693

Amends the process for determining mental competency for execution

BANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF SENIOR LAWYER IN SYLHET

A Sylhet court on May 6, 2025 sentenced three individuals, including the son of the victim, to death for the brutal 2011 murder of veteran lawyer Shamsul Islam Chowdhury. Another accused in the case received a three-year prison sentence.

NIGERIA: BRT DRIVER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BAMISE’S MURDER

Justice Sherifat Sonaike of the Lagos State High Court on May 2, 2025 sentenced Bus Rapid Transit driver, Andrew Ominikoron, to death by hanging for the murder of 22-year-old Oluwabamise Ayanwola.

USA - South Carolina. Botched firing squad execution

Autopsy suggests shooters did not hit Mikal Mahdi's heart

USA - Victims’ Families Remain Divided on Federal Death Penalty

AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOG WOMAN AND THREE MEN

The Taliban authorities have publicly flogged a woman and three men in separate incidents in northern and southeastern Afghanistan, according to statements issued on May 4, 2025 by the group’s Supreme Court.

PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING DAUGHTER-IN-LAW OVER COLD CURRY

Sargodha Additional Sessions Judge Muhammad Aslam sentenced a man to death for killing his daughter-in-law over serving cold curry and acquitted.

IRAN - Rouhollah Moradiani and Maziar Karimi executed in Karaj on May 7

IRAN - Ali (Arash) Shafiee executed in Shiraz on May 7

IRAN - Jafar Pourassadi executed in Rasht on May 7

USA - Florida. Jury recommends death penalty for Troy Victorino and Jerone Hunte

IRAN - Ashraf Shahbazi executed in Yasuj on May 7

IRAN - Rasoul Rezayi executed in Yasuj on May 7

IRAN - Maziar Karimi executed in Karaj on May 7

INDIA: GUJARAT COURT HANDS DOWN 'DOUBLE DEATH SENTENCE' TO MAN FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL

A sessions court in Gujarat on April 25, 2025 sentenced a man, 30, to a double death penalty in the case of raping and strangulating a 7-year-old girl to death in October 2019 in a village in Anand.

BANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH FOR MURDER OF HAWKER ZUBAIR IN NARAYANGANJ

A Narayanganj court on May 6, 2025 sentenced four individuals to death and two others to life imprisonment in the murder case of hawker Zubair.

IRAN - Mehdi Khani executed in Arak on May 6

IRAN - Manouchehr Golabi executed in Bandar Abbas on May 6

IRAN - Hassan Saei executed in Tabriz on May 6

IRAN - Unk executed in Shahroud on May 6

IRAN - Payam Mokhtari executed in Tabriz on May 6

KUWAIT: GUJARAT MAN HANGED FOR MURDERING HIS EMPLOYER IN 2019

A 38-year-old resident of Mohammadali Chowk in Kapadvanj (Gujarat), Mustakim Bhathiara, was executed in Kuwait on April 28, 2025 after being convicted in a 2019 murder case.

IRAN - Amir Mohammad Tavakkoli executed in Hamedan on May 5

SAUDI ARABIA: 100 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN 2025 SO FAR

Saudi Arabia executed two people convicted of terrorism related charges, the interior ministry said on May 3, 2025, bringing the total number of executions carried out this year to at least 100, according to an AFP tally.

IRAN - 7 men executed in Birjand on May 4

Khosrow Sarani, Mahmoud Sarani, Yousef Sorourvash, Alireza Lalouzai, Mousa Shokoohi, Mojtaba Lakzaei, and Ali Nouri

IRAN - Saber Eliasi (Elyasi) executed in Qazvin on May 4

IRAN - Naeb Baluchi executed in Zahedan on May 4