Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo on September 26, 2025 sentenced a dismissed soldier with the Nigerian Army, 6 Battalion, Ibagwa in Abak, Corporal Stephen Iweh, to death by hanging for the murder of a 42-year-old man, Christopher Enobong Jimmy.

33rd execution of the year in the US

Using nitrogen gas

A Malaysian man was hanged in Singapore on September 25, 2025 for drug trafficking, raising the number of executions in the city-state to 11 this year despite renewed calls to abolish the death penalty.

The Taliban publicly flogged 17 people in Kabul on drug-related charges on September 22, 2025, the group’s supreme court announced, as corporal punishment continues across Afghanistan.

Kuching Federal Court on September 23, 2025 upheld the death sentence imposed on a Sri Aman pharmacist convicted of murdering his wife in 2018.

Ahmad-Reza Geravand, Farshad Geravand, and Amir …

Ali Keshavarz, Sajad Aslani, Ahmad Bakhtiar, Keyvan Rahmati