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
JANUARY 20, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Agrees to Use of Disputed Confession for Life Sentence
Accused 9/11 Mastermind
JANUARY 20, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Among First-Day Executive Orders, Trump Issues Order on the Death Penalty
- JANUARY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bahram Valipour and Hossein Farhadi executed in Gorgan on January 19
JANUARY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Court sentences pop star Tataloo to death for blasphemy
JANUARY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Mohammadi executed in Arak on January 19
- JANUARY 18, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - A third man, Iouri Mikhel, rejects Biden's pardon
- JANUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Two Iranian supreme court judges shot dead
Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghisseh
JANUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mass Executions Behind The Elimination of Iranian Judges
Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghise
JANUARY 17, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden grants clemency to 2490 convicted of non-violent drug offences
JANUARY 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Yasin arrives in Germany
Iranian-Kurdish rapper once on death row
- JANUARY 16, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN EXECUTES DEATH ROW INMATE CONVICTED IN 2013 MURDERS
Taiwan on January 16, 2025 executed a death row inmate convicted in a 2013 double murder, marking the country's first execution since President Lai Ching-te took office last year.
- JANUARY 16, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Department of Justice Withdraws Federal Execution Protocol
And Keeps Moratorium on Executions in Place
JANUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Third man executed in Khorrambad on January 16
Mohammad Amiri-Bahravand
JANUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rashid Zeinabi and Saman Davoudian executed in Khorramabad on January 16
JANUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saiwan Yaqoubi executed in Sanandaj on January 16
- JANUARY 15, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: ORISSA HC COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF 9 TO LIFE SENTENCE
The Orissa High Court on January 15, 2025 commuted the death sentences of nine individuals to life imprisonment in connection with a 2016 triple murder case.
- JANUARY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on January 15
Farrokh Nasiri, Mansour Qolizadeh, and Payam Cheraghi
JANUARY 15, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR MURDERER OF MALAYSIAN STUDENT
The Taiwan High Court Kaohsiung Branch on January 15, 2025 upheld a death sentence for a man found guilty of raping and murdering a Malaysian student in a retrial.
- JANUARY 14, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: PESHAWAR HIGH COURT BLOCKS DEPORTATION OF OVER 100 AFGHAN MUSICIANS
The Peshawar High Court on January 10, 2025 issued an order preventing the forced deportation of more than 100 Afghan musicians who have sought political asylum in Pakistan, according to local media reports.
- JANUARY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 51st week of the “No to Executions on Tuesdays” campaign
Hunger strikes in 34 female and male prisons
JANUARY 14, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Agofsky and Davis can't legally object to Biden's death row commutations
DOJ argues
JANUARY 14, 2025FranceDEATH PENALTYIRAN - French Citizen Olivier Grondeau Imprisoned in Iran
3rd Frenche citized deteined in Iran on vague charges
JANUARY 13, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: DEATH SENTENCE OF EX-LORRY DRIVER CONVICTED OF RAPE-CUM-MURDER OF ELDERLY WOMAN COMMUTED TO 40 YEARS IMPRISONMENT
A former lorry driver who murdered an 85-year-old woman after raping and sodomising her in 2019 has his death sentence commuted to 40 years in prison by the Federal Court on January 13, 2025.
JANUARY 13, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN, SON AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING RELATIVE, HIS DAUGHTER OVER ‘HONOUR’
Jamshoro’s additional sessions court on January 10, 2025 sentenced a man and his son to death after they were found guilty of murdering a young woman and her father in the name of honour.
JANUARY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHRS Year-End report. Iran Executed More than 1000 in 2024.
JANUARY 12, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Italy releases Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi
Iranian national detained on terrorism charges
JANUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jafar Fallah executed in Semnan on January 12
- JANUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Pouya Asgari executed in Arak on January 12
JANUARY 11, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pakhshan Azizi is one step away from execution
- JANUARY 10, 2025DEATH PENALTY
USA - Federal judge delays 9/11 deals
Some victims' family members criticize Biden's lack of “political” courage