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
APRIL 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Morad Kakayi executed in Gonabad on April 21
APRIL 20, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF US NATIONAL EX-WIFE
An additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) in Rawalpindi on April 9, 2025 handed down death sentence to a man for killing his US national ex-wife over an issue of property worth billions of rupees.
APRIL 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Goudarzi executed in Dorud on April 20
APRIL 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sadollah Gorgij executed in Zahedan on April 20
APRIL 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Bahari executed in Gorgan on April 20
APRIL 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Shahsavari executed in Qom on April 20
- APRIL 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Hosseinnejad Secretly Hanged
Kurdish Political Prisoner
APRIL 17, 2025GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OVER JAMMEH-ERA KILLING OF FINANCE MINISTER
Gambia's Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of a government minister convicted of killing the finance minister to life in prison, one of few to be convicted of crimes committed during the 22-year rule of ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh, Reuters report
APRIL 17, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: SCHOOL BUS STOP MURDERER EXECUTED
A Chinese man convicted of killing a Chinese woman and injuring two Japanese nationals in a knife attack at a school bus stop near Shanghai last year was executed, Japanese government officials said April 17, 2025.
APRIL 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou at imminent risk of execution
APRIL 17, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Xavier Davis, 32, Black, sentenced to death
APRIL 17, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Who are the death row executioners?
Disgraced doctors, suspended nurses and drunk drivers
APRIL 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Yavari Hanged in Gorgan on April 17
APRIL 16, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: THREE GET CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDERING FIVE IN SINDHANUR
The murder of five individuals of a family in Sindhanur town (Karnataka state) in July 2020 has ended with capital punishment for three accused in the case.
APRIL 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amirhossein Maghsoudlou (Tataloo) Sentenced to Death
APRIL 16, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Larry Estrada has death sentence commuted to life
- APRIL 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 64th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
in 40 Prisons Across Iran
- APRIL 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Cheraghali Ghasemi Hanged in Qom on April 15
- APRIL 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Amirizadeh Hanged in Sabzevar on April 15
APRIL 15, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN FLOG 13 PEOPLE, INCLUDING FIVE WOMEN, IN KHOST AND JAWZJAN
The Taliban have publicly flogged 13 people, including five women, in the provinces of Khost and Jawzjan on charges ranging from “illicit relations” and “fleeing their home” to blasphemy, bribery, and false reporting, the group’s Supreme Court said in a s
APRIL 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Bandar Abbas on April 15
Peyman Naderi, Karim Esmaili and Ayoub Barniani
APRIL 15, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: AFGHAN MAN EXECUTED IN MECCA FOR SMUGGLING HEROIN
Saudi Arabia's interior ministry announced on April 13, 2025 the execution of Afghan national Badshah Qul Suleimani in the Mecca region, after he was convicted of attempting to smuggle heroin into the kingdom.
APRIL 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death Sentence of Naser Bakarzadeh Overturned
Accused of Espionage for Israel
APRIL 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abubakr Shahbakhsh executed in Kerman on April 15
APRIL 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rahim Rahimnejad executed in Kerman on April 15
- APRIL 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (central) on April 15
Ali Shahi, Sajad Yarmohammadi, and Majid Rouhi
APRIL 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Motavalli and Gholamali Mashallahi executed in Arak on April 15
APRIL 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Abbasi executed in Kermanshah on April 15
APRIL 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Feizollah Karami and Sohrab Heydari Hanged in Qom on April 15
- APRIL 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Faza Doustiani executed in Karaj (Central) on April 15