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
DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Heidar Amiri executed in Sabzevar on December 15
DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Bamari executed in Kerman on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bahman Hosseini executed in Gorgan on December 15
DECEMBER 15, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - DPIC Year End Report 2025
More executions than new death sentences
- DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on December 15
Milad Sheikhi + 2
DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - … Khorrami executed in Zanjan on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - … Norzad executed in Nowshah on December 15
DECEMBER 15, 2025GeorgiaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Georgia. The execution of Stacey Humphreys, set for December 17, has been delayed
Amid questions of conflicts of interest among the state Board of Pardons
DECEMBER 15, 2025SyriaDEATH PENALTYSYRIA DENIES DEATH PENALTY CLAIMS FOR FORMER GRAND MUFTI, SAYS LEGAL PROCESS ONGOING
Syrian Justice Minister Mazhar al-Weis denied widespread online rumors that former Grand Mufti Ahmad Badr al-Din Hassoun faces a death sentence
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Rahimi executed in Gorgan on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran arrests Maryam Basir Tavana, member of justice-seeking families
DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Abdoli executed in Dezful on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadamin Bakhtiari executed in Semnan on December 14
1950 executions since the beginning of 2025
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Saki-zadeh executed in Qom on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khalegh Zolfaghari executed in Yazd on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Soltan Morad Aslanpour executed in Tabriz on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Dinari executed in Arak on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ehsan Yari and Mohammad Karimi executed in Karaj on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Borujerd on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khalil Amkani executed in Bandar Abbas on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Ghane executed in Ahvaz on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kamran Nouri executed in Sanandaj on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Dana executed in Ardabil on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sadegh Abdi executed in Qazvin on December 14
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Torki executed in Nahavand on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sedigheh Ghorbani, a woman, executed in Urmia on December 13
59th woman in 2025
- DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gholam Saljouqi executed in Hamedan on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 30 of those arrested alongside Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi identified
At the memorial ceremony for lawyer Khosrow Alikurdi
- DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kaka Morad Jafari executed in Khorramabad on December 13
- DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farshid Sagvand executed in Aligudarz on December 13