Iran put at least 1,639 people to death in 2025 — an average of four per day — marking a 68 percent rise from the 975 executions recorded in 2024 and the highest annual total since human rights organisations began tracking the figures in 2008. The data comes from a joint report by Human Rights Activists and Together Against the Death Penalty, who stress the figures represent a confirmed minimum, with the true toll likely higher. Among those executed were 48 women, up from 31 the previous year, with nearly half sentenced for allegedly killing their partners; eleven executions were carried out in public, while the remainder took place inside prisons.