2025

SRI LANKA: PERSON SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER HEROIN POSSESSION

The Colombo High Court on April 3, 2025 sentenced to death a person who was found guilty of being in the possession of over 16 grams of heroin and drug trafficking.

USA - California. Timothy McGhee’s conviction and death penalty overturned

IRAN - UN broad investigations into violations and crimes in Iran

IRAN - Motion of the European Parliament on executions in Iran

DR CONGO: DEATH SENTENCE FOR THREE AMERICANS OVER COUP ATTEMPT OVERTURNED

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi has downgraded the death sentences of three United States citizens convicted for taking part in a failed coup attempt last year, reducing their punishments to life imprisonment.

NIGERIA: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN EKITI

The Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti on March 27, 2025 sentenced two men to death by hanging for armed robbery.

INDIA: 564 PEOPLE ON DEATH ROW, HIGHEST SINCE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

According to the latest data published by Project 39A in its Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics Report, in 2024 sessions courts imposed 139 death sentences, higher than the yearly average since 2016.

USA - Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione

In UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing

PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH, FINE IN MURDER CASE

Okara court of additional session judge (ASJ) on March 27, 2025 handed down capital punishment to a man, along with Rs0.5 million fine, in a murder case, besides seven-year jail term under Arms Ordinance, with 20,000 fine, in the same case.

IRAN - Mansour and Mahmoud Mardani, Christian converts, sentenced to 4 years

“Propaganda against the regime through promoting Christianity”

IRAN - 62nd Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign

UAE: 3 UZBEK NATIONALS SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER KILLING OF CHABAD RABBI

Three Uzbek nationals accused of killing Chabad Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the United Arab Emirates last year have been sentenced to death, Israeli sources in the Gulf state told Hebrew-language media on March 30, 2025.

MALAYSIA: 5 INDIAN NATIONALS GET DEATH PENALTY CONVERTED TO 30 YEARS’ JAIL FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

Malaysia’s Court of Appeal has commuted the death sentences of five Indian nationals to 30 years in prison, finding them guilty on two counts of drug trafficking at a plantation in Rantau, Negeri Sembilan, seven years ago, Free Malaysia Today reported on

NIGERIA: REPS RESCIND DECISION ON BILL TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY

The Nigerian Federal House of Representatives on March 27, 2025 reversed its decision on the second reading of two controversial bills: one aimed at stripping the Vice President, governors, and deputy governors of their immunity, and another advocating fo

USA - Georgia. Legislature votes to make it easier to prove intellectual disability in death penalty cases

HB 123

IRAN - 58 executions in March

The month of Ramadan

USA - Georgia. Senate eases the burden of proof for intellectual disability in capital cases

HB 123

STEPHEN MUNYAKHO SET TO RETURN HOME AFTER MUSLIM WORLD LEAGUE CLEARED $1MILLION FINE IN SAUDI ARABIA

The Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (Supkem) has confirmed the payment of Sh129 million to Saudi Arabian authorities for the release of Kenyan Stephen Munyakho, also known as Abdulkarim, SyndiGate Media reported on March 28, 2025.

IRAN - Abbas Fatehi executed in Gorgan on March 29

IRAN - Morteza Saadatpour Zeini and Mohsen Hedayat executed in Tabriz on March 29

PAKISTAN: FIVE TO HANG FOR BLASPHEMY

A court in Rawalpindi on March 22, 2025 awarded death penalty to five accused, along with life imprisonment and a cumulative sum of Rs6.5 million in fines in a blasphemy case registered against them by the Cyber Crime Wing of the Federal Investigation Age

IRAN - Yasser Roshani (Yaser Roshan) executed in Arak on March 29

USA - South Carolina. I saw South Carolina use a firing squad to execute a man

I am sick with rage

IRAN - A woman, Mahnaz Kakaei, and Ali Sufian executed in Isfahan on March 29

USA - Pennsylvania. Seifullah Abdul-Salaam sentenced to LWOP

USA - GOP lawmakers in 10 states introduce bills to treat abortion as homicide

CHINA: METHAMPHETAMINE PRODUCER EXECUTED AFTER MASSIVE BATCH SEIZURE

The Intermediate People's Court of China’s Linyang City has confirmed the execution of a death sentence for a man convicted of producing and trafficking 200 kg of methamphetamine, Caliber.az reported on March 23, 2025.

VIETNAM: DOCTOR GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR DISMEMBERING MISTRESS

A 37-year-old married doctor who murdered and dismembered his mistress was sentenced to death by the People’s Court in Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam on March 18, 2025.

PAKISTAN: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HONOUR KILLING IN TOBA TEK SINGH

A court in Toba Tek Singh, Pakistan, on March 24, 2025 sentenced two men to death for the murder of Maria Bibi, who was killed by her father and brother in March 2024.

USA - North Carolina. Jonathan Michael Monk, White, sentenced to death

For the 2017 murders of 4 prison workers