A man was sentenced to death for tricking his two children into drinking pesticide, causing their deaths, the Zunyi Intermediate People's Court in Guizhou province said on December 26, 2025.
Sajjad Veysi, Ali Akbar Barzegar, Peyman Zamani, Yahya Panahi Rad, Amin Khosroabadi, Mahmoud Zarei, Khodarahm Ahmadi, Ali Mohammad Dastar, Mansour Rigi
Shoja Asgari, Heshmat Fallahi + 2
A Taliban court in Paktika province has overturned the death sentence against Abdul Alim Khamosh, a teacher who had been detained on charges of “insulting the prophet of islam,”
Making it clear that not every brutal murder warrants capital punishment, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on December 22, 2025 commuted the death sentence of Ashok Kumar
Mohammadjafar Babaei, Asghar Tavakoli, Ebrahim Hakimi
Soheil Bakhtiari, Sobhan Safizadeh, Amir Mahdi Navabi, Sina Nadari, Marvan Emadabadi, Yaser Khatibi
Nariman Mohammadi, Eskandar Bakhshoudeh, Taher Bastani
Ali Safar Sepahvand, Mostafa Mehrjoo, Moein Hassanzadeh, Jamshid Akbari, Jafar Najafi, Mousa Rahimi-Rad, Azizali Kolkhani + 1