A Habiganj court on April 9, 2025 sentenced four people to death for the murder of a day laborer at Madhabpur upazila in the district.

Farhad Shakeri, Abdolhakim Azim Gorgij, Abdolrahman Gorgij, Taj Mohammad Khormali, and Malek-Ali Fadaie-Nasab

The Court of Cassation on April 8, 2025 upheld the verdict issued by the Court of Appeals which sentenced a 40-year-old Kuwaiti citizen to death for murdering his mother-in-law using a Kalashnikov rifle in Wafra.

The Central Criminal Court on April 8, 2025 sentenced a drug dealer to death for the crime of trafficking in narcotic substances.

The Telangana high court on April 8, 2025 upheld the death sentence awarded to five Indian Mujahideen operatives in the 2013 Dilsukhnagar blasts case, dismissing their appeal challenging the punishment.

After her second appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court

Within two years year of the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim administration abolishing the mandatory death penalty, the number of death row inmates has plunged by nearly 90 per cent

Zhou Liren, a postgraduate student at Xiangtan University in Hunan province, was sentenced to death and life-long deprivation of political rights on April 7, 2025 for poisoning his two roommates' food, killing one of them, according to the Xiangtan Intermediate People's Court.