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 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamideh Jabbari and Manouchehr Ramazani executed in Qom on December 13
60 women executed in 2025
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Eitvand and Keyumars Bahrami executed in Karaj on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamzeh Sarlak executed in Dezful on December 13
- DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Aziz Ali Moradi executed in Kermanshah on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Ali Koulivand and Morad Jafari executed in Khorramabad on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - … Golmohammadi executed in Nahavand on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTYKYRGYZSTAN: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT BLOCKS RETURN OF DEATH PENALTY
Kyrgyzstan's constitutional court on December 10, 2025 rejected a draft law backed by President Sadyr Japarov that would have brought back the death penalty in the Central Asian state.
DECEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 16 arrests, including Nobel laureate Mohammadi
During a ceremony for the suspicious death of Khosrow Alikurdi
DECEMBER 12, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. William Arnold Armendariz Sentenced to Death
28, Hispanic, a gang member
DECEMBER 12, 2025OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Elwood Jones, now 57, Black, exonerated
Spent 27 years on death row
DECEMBER 11, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN IN HEBEI SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS WIFE
A man in north China's Hebei Province was sentenced to death for killing his wife, a local court announced on December 9, 2025
DECEMBER 11, 2025TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Harold Nichols was executed by lethal injection on December 11
64, White, on death row for 35 years
DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Manouchehr Navabi executed in Taybad on December 11
- DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Ghahremani executed in Ferdows on December 11
- DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sasan Sheikhi executed in Behbahan on December 11
- DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kabir Mahmoudvand executed in Mahshahr on December 11
- DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Jahantigh executed in Sari on December 11
DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kavian … executed in Bukan on December 11
- DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Shamloo executed in Bojnord on December 11
- DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Taybad on December 11
DECEMBER 11, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Poll: Majority of U.S. Catholics support death penalty
Despite Catechism
DECEMBER 11, 2025ItalyDEATH BY PUNISHMENTITALY - On World Human Rights Day, HoC is in Perugia
Meeting in the Great Hall of the University for Foreigners
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kourosh Sabzi giustiziato a Kashmar il 10 dicembre
DECEMBER 10, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Mark Geralds, 58, White, was executed on December 10, 2025
DECEMBER 10, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 42-YEAR-OLD MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE, MURDER OF SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN VALSAD
A court in Vapi town of Valsad, in the State of Gujarat, on December 4, 2025 sentenced 42-year-old man to death for the brutal rape, sodomy, and murder of a six-year-old girl.
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ne'mat Behirayi executed in Bushehr on December 10
DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Elnaz Azizi, a woman, executed in Mashhad on December 10
DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan-Morad Haqi executed in Damghan on December 10
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Karim Siyadi executed in Shahr-e Kord on December 10
DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrdad Mirzaei executed in Rasht on December 10