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 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Younes Kheyrallahpour executed in Aligudarz on February 13
FEBRUARY 13, 2025OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Gov DeWine issues 3 death penalty reprieves
Rescheduling executions to 2028
FEBRUARY 13, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Richard Tabler, 46, White, was executed
FEBRUARY 13, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. In four days Florida passed a package of laws against undocumented immigrants
Including the death penalty for various crimes, not just murder.
FEBRUARY 13, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - ‘Warden, I am ready’: documentary on the death penalty as seen from the point of view of a victim's son
FEBRUARY 13, 2025United KingdomDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two British citizens, a man and a woman, arrested on vague charges.
Yet another episode of ‘hostage taking’ by the Iranian regime.
FEBRUARY 13, 2025FranceDEATH PENALTYREPATRIATED FRENCHMAN'S INDONESIA DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON
A Frenchman reprieved after 18 years on death row in Indonesia on drug offenses will have to serve 30 years in jail after being repatriated last week, a French court ruled February 12, 2025.
FEBRUARY 12, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: NAFDAC PROPOSES DEATH PENALTY FOR DEALERS OF HARMFUL DRUGS
The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has proposed the introduction of the death penalty for drug peddlers
FEBRUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Shabakhsh Pirsorani and Tayeb Javadi executed in Isfahan on February 12
FEBRUARY 12, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACQUITTED OF BLASPHEMY
A court in Pakistan on January 25, 2025 acquitted Christian twin brothers of a false blasphemy accusation as the prosecution failed to prove charges against them, their attorney said.
FEBRUARY 12, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Nuns on Texas death row
Sisters of Mary Morning Star
FEBRUARY 12, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. House passes HB 49
Death penalty for child rapists
FEBRUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Kakavand executed in Malayer on February 12
FEBRUARY 11, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING COUPLE DURING HOUSE ROBBERY
Additional District and Sessions Judge (South) Abdul Hafeez Lashari, who conducted the trial at the judicial complex inside the central prison, Karachi, found Nawaz Khursheed guilty of murdering an elderly couple, Jawed Iftikhar and Salma, in their DHA Ph
FEBRUARY 11, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 BNP LEADERS RELEASED FROM RAJSHAHI JAIL
Four Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders, who were acquitted from the death penalty by the High Court recently, were released from Rajshahi jail on February 11, 2025.
FEBRUARY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 55th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
Hunger strike in in 35 Prisons Across Iran
FEBRUARY 10, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SC RAPS COPS FOR ‘FAULTY PROBE’, ACQUITS MAN ON DEATH ROW
The Supreme Court of India has set aside death penalty awarded to an Agra man who was earlier convicted for murder of his brother, sister-in-law and four children in a property dispute case in 2012, Times of India reported on February 10, 2025.
FEBRUARY 10, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN FLOG SEVEN IN THREE PROVINCES
Taliban publicly flogged seven people in Kunduz, Uruzgan and Ghazni provinces on charges of extramarital relations and assault, according to Taliban supreme court statements on February 10, 2025.
FEBRUARY 10, 2025LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana. Executions to resume, Gov. Jeff Landry announces
After 15 years
FEBRUARY 10, 2025TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Kevin Burns, the death row inmate who celebrates mass on death row
Burns is an evangelical pastor
FEBRUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahram Manafzadeh and Farhad Abdoli executed in Tabriz on February 9
FEBRUARY 9, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. The Baptist church alongside the victims, not the culprits
The case of Steven Nelson who had killed a Baptist pastor
FEBRUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pejman Soltani sentenced to death
Kurdish political prisoner, arrested during the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” movement
FEBRUARY 9, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYAFRICAN COURT ORDERS TANZANIA TO END MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has ruled against Tanzania’s mandatory imposition of the death penalty, calling it a violation of fundamental human rights.
FEBRUARY 8, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: TWO CITIZENS EXECUTED ON 'TERRORISM' CHARGES
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced on February 5, 2025 that two citizens had been executed after being convicted of “betraying the nation and supporting terrorism.”
FEBRUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Rezaei executed in Zanjan on February 8
FEBRUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On February 8, a woman who partially undressed on a street in Tehran was arrested
The arrest of three other individuals in connection with the incident
FEBRUARY 7, 2025North CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Carolina. Hasson Bacote's death sentence overturned ‘on racial grounds’
Other cases may follow
FEBRUARY 7, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Sept. 11 Plea Deal Includes Gag Order on C.I.A. Torture Secrets
FEBRUARY 6, 2025IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. House widely passes bill to make firing squad main execution method
The House approved HB 37 on a 58-11 vote