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
JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTYDRC: AUTHORITIES ANNOUNCE 170 PRISONERS TO BE EXECUTED
More than 170 inmates on death row were flown from Congo’s capital to a high-security prison in the north where they will be executed, Congolese authorities said.
JANUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Samad Najar-Asl executed in Isfahan on January 9
JANUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - List of 54 Political and Security Prisoners on Death Row
JANUARY 9, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SENTENCED TO DEATH AS MINOR, MAN SET FREE AFTER 23 YEARS
The Supreme Court of India on January 8, 2025 set free a minor offender, more than 23 years after he was sentenced to death by an Uttarakhand court in a murder case
JANUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on January 9
Behrouz Ghasemi, Houshang Shahi, Samad Najjar Asl
JANUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Norouzi executed in Qom on January 9
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sixth execution reported in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on Jan. 8
An unidentified Afghan
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Ashna (Noutizehi) executed in Kerman on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdorrahman Boroumand Center Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 938 in 2024
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Baoo Dieselabadi executed in Sari on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death Sentence upheld for Pakhshan Azizi
Kurdish political prisoner
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 8
Salman Bozorgmehr, Reza Azizian, and Ashkan Pirian + 2 Unk
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Italian Journalist Cecilia Sala Released
JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kermanshah on January 7
Mozafar Shahsavari, Mohammad Shahidi, and Ashkan Kazemi
JANUARY 7, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - US transfers 11 Guantanamo detainees to Oman
After more than two decades without charge
- JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Mehrabadi executed in Sabzevar on January 7
JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Volker Türk "deeply troubled by the marked increase in executions in Iran in 2024"
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentences for Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani
Political prisoners accused of belonging to the PMOI
JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran HRM Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 993 in 2024
JANUARY 7, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Two death row inmates reject Biden’s clemency
Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis
JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN Farman Afristam executed in Kermanshah on January 7
- JANUARY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Saadi executed in Ahvaz on January 6
JANUARY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Atin and Reza Seyedi executed in Mahabad on January 6
- JANUARY 6, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Why Does the United States Bother to Impose Death Sentences?
Editorial by Professor Austin Sarat, Amherst College
JANUARY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Year-End Report on Women
31 women executed in 2024
JANUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Bahmanyari execeted in Ganaveh on January 5
JANUARY 5, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA - ESOHR Year-End Report
345 executions in 2024
- JANUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khalil Alizahi e Amir Mohammad Farahani executed in Shiraz on January 5
JANUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Azadi executed in Hamedan on January 5
- JANUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Arzandeh and Mohammadreza Hosseinzadeh executed in Shiraz on January 5