The Court of Special Judge (POCSO Act), Agra, on October 16, 2025, awarded death sentence to two accused for the kidnapping, gangrape and murder of a five-and-a-half-year-old minor girl last year.
This was the 39th execution in the US in 2025, a record for the last 11 years.
Klang High Court on October 15, 2025 sentenced a man to death by hanging after he pleaded guilty to a charge of murdering and burning his pregnant girlfriend in Sabak Bernam, two years ago.
The Taliban on October 16, 2025 publicly executed a man convicted of murder in northwestern Afghanistan, marking the 11th such execution since the group’s return to power in 2021, according to the Taliban’s Supreme Court.
Kafieh Qobadzadeh, Sajad Shahriyari Golmakani, Touraj Rostami, Nasir Babamohammadi, Milad Jahani
Against the escalating wave of executions
Milad Jahani, Sajjad Shahriari Golmakani, + 1
