A court in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur on September 18, 2025 awarded the death penalty to a 38-year-old man for the rape and murder of his seven-year-old niece, a government lawyer said on September 19, adding that the court also imposed a fine of Rs 13,000 on him.

The High Court in Eldoret has issued a major ruling reducing the sentence of a man who had spent more than a decade on death row.

Calcutta High Court on September 18, 2025 commuted the death sentence of a 45-year-old man - convicted of murdering a woman and her daughter - to a life sentence, but directed no remission for 40 years.

Saeed Ghobadi, Kazem Jamashourani and Hadi Nowruzi

The Ministry of Interior executed five individuals on January 19, 2025 morning, including three Kuwaiti men, a Kuwaiti woman and an Arab expatriate.

1102 executions in Iran in 2025