Archive timeline
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 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Raeisi executed in Shiraz on May 4
MAY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Shokoohi executed in Kerman on May 4
MAY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ammar Validi executed in Ahvaz on May 4
MAY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Mirzaei executed in Zanjan on May 4
MAY 4, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Death Penalty Expansion Bills Await Governor’s Signature
HB 1283/SB 1804, HB 653/SB 776, HB 693/SB 984, HB 903/SB 1604
- MAY 3, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: ARMY COURT MARTIAL SENTENCES SOLDIER TO DEATH FOR GIRLFRIEND’S MURDER
A General Court Martial sitting at the Headquarters, 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu, has sentenced Private Adamu Mohammed to death by hanging for murder, while Private Abubakar Yusuf was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for robbery.
MAY 2, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTYUSA - Illinois. Former Gov. George Ryan Dies at 91
He cleared death row in 2003
MAY 2, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Row USA Spring 2025
2067 persons on death row as April 1, 2025
- MAY 1, 2025OhioDEATH PENALTY
USA - Ohio. Court overturns Nathaniel Jackson’s death sentence
MAY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Karim Farokhvand and Mahmoud Ostad Mamzayi executed in Dezful on May 1
MAY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Shiravand executed in Khorramabad on May 1
MAY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A Woman Executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on May 1
Only identified as “Saghar”
MAY 1, 2025OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Senate passes new mental competency procedure
MAY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Farahavar sentenced to death
Gilak dissident poet
MAY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Darikvand and Hamzeh Alizadeh executed in Khorramabad on May 1
MAY 1, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Jeffrey Hutchinson, 62, White, was executed on May 1
15th execution of the year in US
APRIL 30, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: GOSPEL SINGER OSINACHI’S HUSBAND SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
Peter Nwachukwu, husband of late gospel singer Osinachi Nwachukwu, has been sentenced to death by hanging by the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja.
APRIL 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 30
APRIL 30, 2025Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2012 YOUTH MURDER IN COLOMBO
The Colombo High Court on April 28, 2025 imposed the death penalty on five individuals for the brutal killing of a 21-year-old youth adjacent to a temple in Mattakkuliya in 2012.
- APRIL 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Identified the other two executed in Karaj on April 30
APRIL 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Mashhad on April 30
Abdolghafar Barahouei, Parviz Dastkaleh, Abdolsamad Gorgij, Javid Golbacheh, Mahdi Azizi + Unk
APRIL 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad-Nabi Zirkari and Ali Kabi executed in Ahvaz on April 30
APRIL 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moslem Darvishipour and Mohammad Salamat executed in Ahvaz on April 30
- APRIL 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Houshang Abbasi executed in Tabriz on April 30
APRIL 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three more people executed in Ghezel Hesar on April 30
Unidentified
APRIL 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Zeinali executed in Mashhad on April 30
APRIL 29, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH ON TERRORISM CHARGES
The Ministry of Interior in Saudi Arabia has issued an advisory informing citizens that a man has been sentenced to death on April 26, 2025.
APRIL 29, 2025KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: FIVE EXECUTED AS TWO CONVICTS WIN PARDON, ONE AWAITS FATE
The Correctional Facilities Sector at the Kuwait Ministry of Interior executed five individuals convicted of premeditated murder at the Central Prison on April 28, 2025.
APRIL 29, 2025North CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Carolina. House committee approves HB 270 on death penalty
Reintroducing electric chair and firing squad
APRIL 29, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Guantanamo's Prosecutors will appeal the torture decision
although they lost a similar appeal this year