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
FEBRUARY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Malek Parsa executed in Amol on February 19
FEBRUARY 19, 2025GeorgiaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Georgia. HB 123 easing burden of proof of intellectual disability
FEBRUARY 19, 2025SomaliaDEATH PENALTY‘HE THOUGHT HE’D BE FREED’: FAMILY MOURNS SOMALI MAN EXECUTED IN SAUDI ARABIA
The news came with chilling finality: Mohamed Nur Hussein, a Somali man imprisoned for seven years in Saudi Arabia, had been executed on February 16. His family, who had spoken to him only a day earlier, were left in shock.
FEBRUARY 18, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BENGAL MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KIDNAPPING, RAPING 7-MONTH-OLD CHILD
A special POCSO court in Kolkata on February 18, 2025 sentenced a man guilty of rape and attempted murder of a seven-month-old child in north Kolkata to death by hanging.
FEBRUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman and 1 man executed in Shiraz on February 18
Woman only identified as Bagherinejad, and Mehdi Iranian
FEBRUARY 18, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SOMALI NATIONAL, SAUDI CITIZEN EXECUTED FOR HASHISH TRAFFICKING, MURDER
Saudi authorities executed a Somali national convicted of drug smuggling and a Saudi citizen found guilty of murder, the Ministry of Interior announced on February 16, 2025.
FEBRUARY 18, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: EX-JIANGSU LEGISLATOR SENTENCED FOR CORRUPTION
A former senior legislator in eastern China's Jiangsu province was given a suspended death sentence for taking bribes, abusing his power and illegally trading landuse rights, a court in the central province of Hubei announced on February 17, 2025.
FEBRUARY 18, 2025United KingdomDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Craig and Lindsay Foreman charged with espionage
British couple
FEBRUARY 18, 2025ArizonaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arizona. House Committee advances firing squad execution
HCR 2024
FEBRUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentence of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh goes to Supreme Court
Kurdish political prisoner
FEBRUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Kavarouyi executed in Kerman on February 18
FEBRUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 56th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
FEBRUARY 17, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH BY HANGING IN RIVERS
The High Court of Rivers State sitting in Port Harcourt has convicted and sentenced Mr. Eze Kingsley to death by hanging, for the murder of Wagbara David, The Sun reported on February 12, 2025.
FEBRUARY 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Aliyari and Sadegh Nezakat executed in Qazvin and Neyshabur
On February 16 and 17
FEBRUARY 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Isfahan on February 17
Ezzat Hosseini Doraki, Ali Es-haqi, Mohammad Shamseddin Arbab, Majid Baluch, Heydar Babaei and Burhan Wasim-Zehi
FEBRUARY 17, 2025KenyaDEATH PENALTYICJ KENYA WELCOMES PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW OF DEATH PENALTY AS CRUCIAL
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) Kenya has praised the formation of a Parliamentary Task Force to review the country’s death penalty laws, calling it a crucial step in justice reform, Capitalfm website reported on February 13, 2025.
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Farahmandijou executed in Behbahan on February 16
- FEBRUARY 16, 2025United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - British couple arrested in Iran identified
Craig and Lindsay Foreman
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Jokar executed in Shiraz on February 16
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hengaw’s Statistical Report: 909 Executions in Iran in 2024
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Farahani executed in Arak on February 16
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahram Almasi executed in Tabriz on February 16
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pejman Bahramian hanged in Kermanshah in February
FEBRUARY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Kord executed in Ramhormoz on February 15
FEBRUARY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Bameri executed in Birjand on February 15
FEBRUARY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Raei executed on February 15 in Birjand
FEBRUARY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Attar executed in Dezful on February 12
FEBRUARY 13, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. James Ford, 64, White, was executed
FEBRUARY 13, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR GANG RAPE AND MURDER
A court in India has sentenced five men to death for the gang rape and murder of a teenager as well as the killing of her father and toddler-aged niece
FEBRUARY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sharifeh Mohammadi sentenced to death again