Fifth Public Hanging in Iran in 2025

According to the judiciary’s Mizan News Agency, a man was publicly hanged in Semnan on July 30 2025. The unnamed man was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for the murder of a four-year-old girl and the attempted  murder of nine other family members.

The unnamed man is the fifth person to be publicly hanged in 2025. Iran is one of the few countries in the world to carry out executions in public spaces. 2021 was the only year in more than a decade that the Islamic Republic did not carry out any public executions, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic that year. Public executions resumed in 2022 with two people being hanged, and in 2023 the number of public executions rose again to seven. In 2024, four people were executed in public in Iran.