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NIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR KILLING FRIEND IN FIGHT OVER CAP 14 May 2025 A High Court in Kano has sentenced one Adamu Isma’ila Arzai to death by hanging for killing his friend during a fight over a cap, Daily Post reported on May 13, 2025. Read everything

BANGLADESH: 3 GET DEATH PENALTY, 5 LIFE TERM IN TRIPLE MURDER CASE IN MUNSHIGANJ

A Speedy Trial Tribunal in Dhaka on May 8, 2025 awarded death penalty to three accused and life term imprisonment to five others in a triple murder case in Munshiganj.

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IRAQ’S JUSTICE MINISTER SAYS PRISONS ARE AT DOUBLE CAPACITY AS AMNESTY LAW TAKES EFFECT

As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an interview on May 3, 2025.

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IRAN - Iran sentences another political prisoner to death: Ehsan Faridi

13 May 2025 Read everything

USA - Victims’ Families Remain Divided on Federal Death Penalty

13 May 2025 Read everything

IRAN - Kourosh Jalili executed in Karaj on May 12

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USA - Death Row USA Spring 2025

2067 persons on death row as April 1, 2025

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USA - Florida. Death Penalty Expansion Bills Await Governor’s Signature

HB 1283/SB 1804, HB 653/SB 776, HB 693/SB 984, HB 903/SB 1604

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IRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Gorgan on May 12

Mahboobeh Khosrow-Nejad, Firooz (Erfan) Aliyari, Safa Qaradashi

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IRAN - Jalil Azizi executed in Arak on May 12

13 May 2025 Read everything

IRAN - Mahmoud Hojatzadeh executed in Isfahan on May 12

427 executions in Iran nel 2025

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IRAN - Mehran Nasri Zar executed in Karaj on May 12

13 May 2025 Read everything

IRAN - Fereydoun Mohammadi and Mohammad-Ali Miri executed in Zahedan on May 11

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URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO SAVE THE LIVES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW

19 April 2025 Read everything

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