2025

IRAN - Marzieh Esmaeili executed in Qazvin on April 15

275 women executed since 2007

IRAN - Sohrab Heydari executed in Qom on April 15

VIETNAM TO REPLACE DEATH PENALTY WITH LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT PAROLE

Vietnam is considering a significant proposal in the draft amendment to the 2025 Penal Code by replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment without parole, and the proposal was discussed at a thematic session on law-making of the government in Hanoi

AFGHANISTAN: FOUR MEN PUBLICLY EXECUTED IN ONE DAY

Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan on April 11, 2025, the Supreme Court said, the highest number of executions to be carried out in one day since the Taliban's return to power.

IRAN - Ali Dehani hanged in Zahedan on April 14

304 executions in Iran so far in 2025

IRAN - Ali Balochzehi executed in Zahedan on April 14

IRAN - Regime Cleric Struggles to Justify 1988 Mass Executions

Mohammad Niazi’s report

IRAN - Ahmad Boghlani Hanged in Borazjan on April 14

IRAN - 3 men executed in Zahedan on April 13

Abdolsalam Baluch Meshkenti (Ahurani), Fereydoun Mohammadi, and Allahnazar Gorgij

IRAN - International female solidarity for Iranian women

IRAN - 4 men executed in Zahedan on April 12

Majid Lajei, Ramin (Rahmatollah) Alizahi, Davood Bajizahi (Shahouzehi), and Bashir Ahmad Rigi

IRAN - Rabi Shah-Morad and Wasim Ahmad executed in Qazvin on April 12

USA - Military Judge Throws Out Sept. 11 Case Confession as Obtained Through Torture

The case of Ammar al-Baluchi

USA - South Carolina. Mikal Mahdi, 42, Black, was executed

By firing squad

IRAN - Death sentence of Shahriar Bayat overturned

64-year-old political prisoner

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: GLOBAL RECORDED EXECUTIONS HIT THEIR HIGHEST FIGURE SINCE 2015

Global executions hit their highest figure since 2015, as over 1,500 people were executed across 15 countries in 2024, said Amnesty International on April 8, 2025 as it released its annual report on the global use of the death penalty

BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING LABORER IN HABIGANJ

A Habiganj court on April 9, 2025 sentenced four people to death for the murder of a day laborer at Madhabpur upazila in the district.

MALAYSIA: TWO PAKISTANI NATIONALS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING OVER 191KG OF KETAMINE

The Malaysian High Court on April 10, 2025 imposed the death penalty on two Pakistani nationals after they were found guilty of trafficking 191.28 kg of ketamine six years ago.

IRAN - Ehsan Bamari and Yasin Bamari executed in Iranshahr on April 10

IRAN - Moein Ashrafi executed in Shahroud on April 10

IRAN - Sajad Barahouei executed in Mashhad on April 9

IRAN - Soud Mirzaei and Vahid Ashouri executed in Shiraz on April 9, 2025

IRAN - Younes Kord e Esmail Dahmardeh giustiziati a Gonabad il 9 aprile

IRAN - Kambiz Fathi executed in Kermanshah on April 9

IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 9

IRAN Gholamreza Pardakhteh executed in Shahrud on April 9

KUWAIT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MOTHER-IN-LAW WITH KALASHNIKOV

The Court of Cassation on April 8, 2025 upheld the verdict issued by the Court of Appeals which sentenced a 40-year-old Kuwaiti citizen to death for murdering his mother-in-law using a Kalashnikov rifle in Wafra.

IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 9th

IRAQ: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

The Central Criminal Court on April 8, 2025 sentenced a drug dealer to death for the crime of trafficking in narcotic substances.

IRAN - Habib Aghaei executed in Qom on April 9