Archive timeline
2025
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2025, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2025
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
FEBRUARY 6, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Demetrius Frazier, 52, Black, was executed
By nitrogen hypoxia
FEBRUARY 6, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 'WITCHCRAFT' MURDER
Five men have been sentenced to death by hanging in Nigeria's Kano state for the 2023 murder of a woman they accused of witchcraft, BBC News reported on February 4, 2025.
FEBRUARY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi is at imminent risk of execution
After her appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court
FEBRUARY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Mahtab Ghazizadeh, executed in Sari on February 6
265 women have been executed in Iran since 2007
FEBRUARY 5, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SUPREME COURT ACQUITS MUMBAI RAPE-MURDER CASE CONVICT ON DEATH ROW SINCE 2015
The Supreme Court of India has acquitted a man who had been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in 2014.
FEBRUARY 5, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Steven Nelson, 37, Black, was executed
FEBRUARY 5, 2025SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: EX-POLICE OFFICER HANGED FOR DOUBLE MURDER
A former policeman who was convicted over the murder of two people in 2013 was executed in Singapore on February 5, 2025.
FEBRUARY 5, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama - House committee approves death penalty for child sexual assault
HB 49
FEBRUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Golmohammad Gorgij and Abdulhamid Kohkan executed in Gorgan on January 5
FEBRUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Ahmadi and Saeed Gholami executed in Kermanshah on February 5
- FEBRUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salman Hamdard executed in Borujerd on February 5
- FEBRUARY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Monthly report on women’s rights
20 women activists arrested, three sentenced, 18 women killed
FEBRUARY 4, 2025Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: ELEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER AFTER 20 YEARS
Eleven accused who stood indicted with murder were found guilty and sentenced to death by Uva Province High Court Judge Prasanna Alwis, Daily Mirror reported on January 31, 2025.
FEBRUARY 4, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHATTOGRAM FOR KILLING PREGNANT WIFE OVER DOWRY
A Chattogram court on February 3, 2025 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife, who was pregnant at the time, over conflict centring dowry.
- FEBRUARY 3, 2025IdahoDEATH PENALTY
USA - Idaho. House Justice Committee passes firing squad (HB 37)
As main death penalty method
FEBRUARY 3, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - List of the 26 death sentences of 2024
FEBRUARY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Manouchehr Fallah has been sentenced to death
A Gilak political prisoner held in Lakan Prison in Rasht
FEBRUARY 3, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: DEATH PENALTY IN DOUBLE MURDER COMMUTED TO LIFE SENTENCE
The Taichung branch of the High Court on January 22, 2025 overturned Yang Hung-ju’s death penalty and sentenced him to life in prison for double homicide.
FEBRUARY 3, 2025IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: NINE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council announced that the Central Criminal Court has sentenced nine Iraqi drug traffickers to death after convicting them of smuggling and distributing illicit substances across the country, Kurdistan24 reported on January 29, 202
- FEBRUARY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hafez Bani Asadi executed in Mashhad on February 3
FEBRUARY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hasani transferred to political prisoners’ ward
Following extensive domestic and international protests
- FEBRUARY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamidreza Shahmoradi executed in Khorramabad on February 3
- FEBRUARY 2, 2025South SudanDEATH PENALTY
SOUTH SUDAN: SUDANESE TRADER HANGED FOR DEFILEMENT AND MURDER
A Sudanese trader who was convicted of defiling, murdering, and dumping the body of five-year-old Abuk Lual into a pit latrine in Aweil in 2022 was executed by hanging in South Sudan on January 29, 2025 at Wau Central Prison.
- FEBRUARY 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A letter from a brave female prisoner
FEBRUARY 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Afshin Amiri executed in Kermanshah on February 2
FEBRUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 87 executions in January
FEBRUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maryam Kaviani executed in Khorramabad on February 1
a Lor woman from Khorramabad
FEBRUARY 1, 2025United StatesDEATH BY PUNISHMENTUSA - 194.000 persons serving life sentences
A study by The Sentencing Project
FEBRUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ehsan Jamshidi executed in Sari on February 1