Executions in January 2025

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country

No of executions

Afghanistan

 

America (USA)

1

Bangladesh

 

Belarus

 

Botswana

 

Chad

 

China

2

Egypt

 

India

 

Iran

105

Iraq

 

Japan

 

Jordan

 

Kuwait

5

Myanmar

 

Nigeria

 

Palestine

 

Qatar

 

Saudi Arabia

41

Singapore

 

Somalia

 

Sudan

1

Syria

 

Taiwan

1

UAE

 

Vietnam

 

Yemen

2

156 men and 2 women were executed in January, their details are as under.

Date

Country

Name

Method

Crime

01/01

Iran

Arshia (f),
Amir Mohammadi,
Ali Safai Zaidehsaraei and
6 unnamed men

Hanging

Murder

01/01

Iran

Meysam Farhadi Farashi,
Reza Bakhtiari,
Ali Vahdani,
Hassan Vahdani,
Shahram Mahdavi,
Pejman Masoudi Koushk and
Mohammad Shafi Mousavi

Hanging

Murder

01/01

Iran

Behrouz Mehrani,
Shahrokh Sabahpour,
Ramzi Beigsawar,
Mohammad Hossein Mohammadifar, 
Hedayat Qasemi, Pasha and
2 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs

01/01

Saudi Arabia

Jasem Mohammed Shaabani, Abdulradha Yunes Tanqasiri, Jalil Shahid Samri,
Mohammed Jawad Abdulhalil, Mahdi Kanaan Ghanemi &
Har Mohammed Shaabani

Beheading (p)

Drugs

01/01

Saudi Arabia

Dheib bin Jibran bin Menahi al-Suda

Beheading (p)

Murder

02/01

Iran

Ali Moradi,
Ali Safai Zaide Sarai and
Amir Mohammadi

Hanging

Murder

02/01

Saudi Arabia

Dheib bin Jibran bin Menahi al-Suda

Beheading (p)

Drugs

04/01

Saudi Arabia

Jabril bin Abdo bin Ali Haqawi

Beheading (p)

Murder

05/01

Iran

Ramadan Taheri,
Abolfazl Af.,
Khalil Alizehi,
Karim Bahmani,
Mustafa Shakeri and
Khosrow Khodadadi

Hanging

Drugs

05/01

Iran

Valiollah Kamalpour

Hanging

Murder

05/01

Iran

Sajjad Arzandeh,
Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh
Khalil Alizehi (Sargolzehi) and Amir Mohammad Farahani 

Hanging

Drugs

05/01

Saudi Arabia

Sayef bin Saad bin Samiran al-Ruwaili

Beheading (p)

Drugs

06/01

Iran

Ali Saadi and
Hassan Norouzi

Hanging

Murder

06/01

Saudi Arabia

Jaber bin Mohammed bin Ahmed Sherahili

Beheading (p)

Murder

07/01

Iran

Reza Seydi and
Ali Atin

Hanging

Rape

07/01

Iran

Alireza Mehrabadi,
Ashkan Kazemi,
Mozaffar Shahsavari and Mohammad Shahidi

Hanging

Murder

08/01

Iran

Farman Afarism,
Milad Bao Dieselabadi and
Hamid Ashna (Notizahi)

Hanging

Murder

08/01

Iran

Salman Bozorgmehr and 
Reza Azizian

Hanging

Drugs

08/01

Saudi Arabia

Aaref Khan Mohammed Aziz

Beheading (p)

Drugs

08/01

Saudi Arabia

Aayed bin Hussein bin Mohammed Khalaf al-Yanbaawi, and Musfer bn Menahi bin Marzuq al-Makhthala al-Qahtani

Beheading (p)

Murder

09/01

Iran

Behrouz Ghasemi,
Samad Najarasl and
Hooshang Shahi

Hanging

Murder

11/01

Saudi Arabia

Nayef bin Awadh bin Barak al-Mashrafi al-Muttairi

Beheading (p)

Murder

12/01

Iran

Poya Asgari and
Ebrahim Sholi

Hanging

Drugs

12/01

Saudi Arabia

Aaedh bin Abdullah bin Eid al-Qarishi al-Subaiei

Beheading (p)

Murder

13/01

Iran

Jafar Fallah

Hanging

Drugs

13/01

Saudi Arabia

Amin Selim Mufleh al-Mumani

Beheading (p)

Drugs

14/01

Iran

Mohammad Rasool Hosseini Moghaddam,
Amin Ramazanali and
Hamid Ashena

Hanging

Drugs

15/01

Iran

Farrokh Nasiri,
Mansour Qolizadeh and
Payam Cheraghi

Hanging

Murder

15/01

Saudi Arabia

Salman Adghim Aayed al-Musaeid

Beheading (p)

Drugs

16/01

Iran

Saiwan Yaqoubi,
Saman Davodian,
Mohammad Amiri Baharvand &
Rashid Zeinabi

Hanging

Murder

16/01

Saudi Arabia

Dakhilallah bin Jalbakh bin Salem al-Ruwaili

Beheading (p)

Drugs

16/01

Taiwan

Huang Lin-kai

Shooting

Murder

16/01

Saudi Arabia

Sayed Sobhi El-Din Sayed Moussa and
Ismail Muhammad Hussein Adam

Beheading (p)

Murder

17/01

Iran

Sivan Yaqoubi

Hanging

Murder

18/01

Saudi Arabia

Abdullah bin Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Salim

Beheading (p)

Terrorism

19/01

Kuwait

4 men and 1 woman (f)

Hanging

Murder

19/01

Iran

Abbas Mohammadi,
Bahram Valipour and
Hossein Farhadi

Hanging

Drugs

19/01

Saudi Arabia

Hadi bin Barik bin Mohammed al-Nahari al-Qahtani

Beheading (p)

Murder

20/01

Iran

Aref Azizi

Hanging

Murder

20/01

Iran

Abbas Mohammadi

Hanging

Drugs

20/01

Saudi Arabia

Marzuq bin Attiyah bin Jamil al-Mahfudhi al-Yezidi

Beheading (p)

Murder

20/01

China

Fan Weiqiu and
Xu Jiajin

Injection

Murder

21/01

Iran

Sardar Mohammad

Hanging

Drugs

21/01

Saudi Arabia

Hamed bin Rashid bin Abdullah al-Badrani al-Dosari

Beheading (p)

Murder

22/01

Iran

Ahmad Sasouli,
Aref Azizi,
Karim Faridi,
Omid Bashartloo,
Javad Jaberi,
Peyman Bahmanyari Gholamreza Seyed Mohammadkhani,
Bahram Valipour,
Hossein Farhadi, and
1 unnamed man (10 men)

Hanging

Murder

22/01

Saudi Arabia

Mustafa Mohammed Omar Mussleh

Beheading (p)

Drugs

22/01

Saudi Arabia

Khaled bin Amad bin Abdullah Aqili and
Muali bin Oniber bin Qaniss al-Makhlafi al-Harbi

Beheading (p)

Murder

22/01

Yemen

Sabri Muhammad Ayyash

Shooting

Murder

22/01

Iran

Rasoul Mahdavipour

Hanging

Murder

22/01

Iran

Sardar Mohammad

Hanging

Drugs

23/01

Iran

Mostafa Aminnejad,
Ahmad Sassoli,
Naser Zandipour,
Nader Minaei and
1 unnamed man

Hanging

Drugs

23/01

Iran

Hojjat Shahriari and
1 unnamed man

Hanging

Murder

25/01

Iran

Mohammad Arif Azizi and
Hojjat Panahi

Hanging

Murder

25/01

Saudi Arabia

Bander bin Sayer bin Sulaiman al-Aassimi

Beheading (p)

Murder

26/01

Iran

Hamid Jahangiri,
Farhad Fardini,
Samad Hashemi and
Farzad Mirzaei

Hanging

Drugs

26/01

Saudi Arabia

Mubarak bin Mabkhout bin Mubarak Al-Saiari, Mabkhout bin Abdullah Al-Saiari, Mani bin Hamad Al-Yami, Mohammed bin Mohammed Al-Marouf Al-Saiari, Qaid bin Abdullah Al-Karbi, Mohammed bin Mubarak bin Al-Saiari, and Salem bin Qadhan bin Al-Saiari (7 men)

Beheading (p)

Drugs

26/01

Saudi Arabia

Khaled bin Nasser bin Omis al-Sultan al-Qahtani

Beheading (p)

Murder

27/01

Saudi Arabia

Nasser bin Abdullah bin Fihan al-Ruqi

Beheading (p)

Murder

28/01

Saudi Arabia

Ali bin Abdulhalil bin Manssur al-Sulaiman

Beheading (p)

Terrorism

29/01

Iran

Hamid Fanai,
Amir Fanai, and
Ali Heydari

Hanging

Unspecified

29/01

Iran

Rasool Minaei and
Khosrow Abbaszadeh

Hanging

Murder

29/01

Saudi Arabia

Qassem bin Mohammed bin Ahmed Saan

Beheading (p)

Murder

29/01

Yemen

Salem Ali Mohammed Bamarhoul

Shooting

Murder

30/01

Iran

Mohammed Zaboli

Hanging

Murder

30/01

Saudi Arabia

Attallah bin Saad bin Mahiyae al-Adhiyani al-Otaibi

Beheading (p)

Murder

30/01

South Sudan

Sabir Abdallah Abusam

Hanging

Murder

31/01

USA South Carolina

Marion Bowman Jr.

Injection

Murder

 (f) = female, (j) = juvenile, (p) = public, (t) = transgender

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