Japan hangs two for murder, first executions in 2019
Japan on Friday hanged two men convicted of murder, the justice ministry said, the first executions this year after 15 death row inmates were executed in 2018.
View ArticleFederal appeals court grants Texas inmate stay of execution
HOUSTON — A federal appeals court has granted a stay of execution to a Texas inmate just one day before he was scheduled to die for the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old woman during a carjacking in...
View ArticleSerial killer who preyed on gay men executed in Florida
STARKE, Fla. — Gary Ray Bowles, a serial killer who preyed on older gay men during an eight-month spree that left six dead, was executed by lethal injection Thursday at Florida State Prison. The...
View ArticleBlind inmate executed in Tennessee for woman’s 1991 killing
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A blind prisoner convicted of killing his estranged girlfriend by setting her on fire in her car was put to death Thursday in Tennessee’s electric chair, becoming only the second...
View ArticleMurderer becomes 22nd person executed in US this year
WASHINGTON, United States — A Texas man who killed a prison officer was executed late Wednesday, bringing to 22 the number of people put to death in the US this year. Travis Runnels, 46, was pronounced...
View ArticleGunmen execute inmate being transported to Laguna jail
SAN PEDRO CITY — A prisoner was shot and killed execution style in front of his security escorts in Calamba City in Laguna province on Monday morning. The inmate was identified as Joshi Tarun, who was...
View ArticleSigns of summary execution emerge as drug suspect found dead a day after he...
BACOLOD CITY—A drug suspect abducted on Wednesday (Jan. 22) turned up dead at a subdivision in this city early on Thursday (Jan. 23), raising suspicions he was summarily executed. The body of Richard...
View ArticleBangladesh executes killer of founding leader
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh has executed a military captain less than a week after he was arrested after nearly 25 years on the run over the assassination of the country’s founding leader, a...
View ArticleUS executes 2nd man in a week; lawyers said he had dementia
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana — The United States on Thursday carried out its second federal execution this week following a hiatus of nearly two decades, killing by lethal injection a Kansas man whose lawyers...
View ArticleIowa drug kingpin who killed 5 set for execution Friday
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A meth kingpin from Iowa who was convicted of killing two young girls and three adults is scheduled to be executed Friday, the third federal inmate to be put to death this week...
View ArticleIran executes man whose case drew international attention
TEHRAN — Iran’s state TV is reporting that the country’s authorities has executed a wrestler for allegedly murdering a man after President Donald Trump asked for the 27-year-old condemned man’s life to...
View ArticleUS government executes killer obsessed with witchcraft
CHICAGO — The U.S. government on Tuesday executed a former soldier who said an obsession with witchcraft led him to kill a Georgia nurse he believed had put a spell on him. William Emmett LeCroy, 50,...
View ArticleFeds put first Black inmate to death since execution restart
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A man who killed a religious couple visiting Texas from Iowa was executed Thursday, the first Black inmate put to death as part of the Trump administration’s resumption of federal...
View ArticleKim Kardashian asks Trump for clemency ahead of US man’s execution
WASHINGTON, United States – Kim Kardashian on Wednesday called on President Donald Trump to commute the death sentence of a US man scheduled to be executed Thursday for his participation in a double...
View ArticleUS carries out first federal execution of woman in decades
WASHINGTON – An American woman who murdered a pregnant dog breeder in order to steal her baby was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday, becoming the first female to be executed by US federal...
View ArticleHow Iran lured a dissident from France to execution
PARIS — In October 2019, Iranian dissident Ruhollah Zam was running a widely followed news site based in France, accompanied by his family and benefitting from refugee status as well as security in his...
View ArticleKiller on death row seeks execution via firing squad
Zane Michael Floyd and his lawyers are requesting to replace injection with gunshots for a "faster and less painful death."
View ArticleAfter pandemic-related reprieve, Texas executes death row inmate
WASHINGTON — The US state of Texas on Wednesday executed a man convicted of a violent triple murder, who was the first to get a stay of execution due to the pandemic. John Hummel, 45, received a lethal...
View ArticleMissouri executes man said to be disabled, despite pope’s call for clemency
Missouri executed convicted murderer Ernest Johnson on Tuesday evening after both Governor Mike Parson and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to grant the clemency sought by Pope Francis, among others, on...
View ArticleSyria executes 24 people over deadly forest fires
AMMAN — Syria executed 24 people it said had set fires that swept swathes of forests mainly in the coastal province of Latakia, the ancestral home of Syrian President Bashar al Assad, the justice...
View ArticleJapan executes three prisoners in first hangings since 2019
TOKYO — Japan hanged three prisoners on Tuesday, its first executions in two years, with the government saying it was necessary to maintain capital punishment in the face of continued “atrocious...
View ArticleOklahoma carries out first US execution of 2022
Washington, United States — A man convicted of carrying out a double murder was put to death by lethal injection Thursday in Oklahoma, becoming the first prisoner executed in the United States this...
View ArticleWave of support for US mother awaiting execution
WASHINGTON — The looming execution of a US mother-of-14 — sentenced to death in a controversial case for the murder of her toddler daughter — has provoked backlash from celebrities like Kim Kardashian...
View ArticleSingapore executes Malaysian on drugs charges after rejecting mental...
SINGAPORE — A Malaysian man convicted of drug trafficking was executed on Wednesday in Singapore despite appeals for clemency on the grounds that he had an intellectual disability, his family said....
View ArticleUS man executed after three murder trials
WASHINGTON—The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed a man sentenced to death three separate times for murdering a couple more than a quarter of a century ago. Carman Deck, 56, received a lethal...
View ArticleTexas death row inmate ‘optimistic’ after 27 years
LIVINGSTON, United States—Hank Skinner, who has been on death row in Texas for nearly three decades, says he still remains hopeful. “I am optimistic I won’t end up here. I should have never been here...
View ArticleSingapore conducts two more executions—activists
SINGAPORE —Singapore hanged two drug traffickers Thursday in what campaigners condemned as a “shameful and inhuman punishment”, taking to four the number of executions in the city-state since March....
View ArticleJapan executes man over 2008 stabbing rampage
TOKYO — Japan on Tuesday executed a man convicted of killing seven people in a truck ramming and stabbing rampage in Tokyo’s popular Akihabara electronics district in 2008, the justice ministry said....
View ArticleHamas authorities execute five Palestinians in Gaza
GAZA — Gaza’s ruling Hamas Islamists executed five Palestinians on Sunday, two of them on charges of espionage for Israel that dated back to 2015 and 2009, the Interior Ministry said. The dawn...
View ArticleKuwait executes seven convicted of murder
KUWAIT — Kuwait executed seven people convicted of murder and other crimes on Wednesday for the first time since 2017, drawing criticism from the European Commission which said that Kuwait’s envoy to...
View ArticleJapanese death row inmates sue over ‘cruel’ hanging
TOKYO — Three death row prisoners filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government on Tuesday, arguing that execution by hanging is cruel and should be abolished, their lawyer said. Japan is one of the...
View ArticleIran carries out first known execution over Amini protests
PARIS — Iran carried out its first known execution Thursday over protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, hanging a man convicted of blocking a street and wounding a paramilitary member in what human...
View ArticleIran carries out second execution linked to anti-government protests
DUBAI — The Islamic Republic hanged a man in public on Monday who had been convicted of killing two members of security forces, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported, the second execution linked...
View ArticleSingapore executes citizen for cannabis trafficking
SINGAPORE — Singapore on Wednesday executed a man convicted of drug trafficking, a representative for his family said, despite pleas from his relatives and activists for clemency. Tangaraju Suppiah,...
View ArticleIran hangs Swedish-Iranian convicted over attack that killed 25 people
DUBAI — Iran on Saturday executed a Swedish-Iranian dissident convicted of leading an Arab separatist group accused of attacks including one on a military parade in 2018 that killed 25 people, state...
View ArticleMali rejects UN report on alleged execution of 500 villagers by troops
BAMAKO — Mali’s interim military government has rejected a United Nations (UN) human rights office report on the alleged execution of at least 500 people by Malian soldiers and unidentified foreign...
View ArticleIran executes three men over recent protests, draws protests
Iran on Friday, May 19, executed three men it said were implicated in the deaths of three members of its security forces during last year’s anti-government demonstrations, drawing protests at home and...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia says it executes American citizen convicted of killing his father
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia on Wednesday executed an American citizen who had been convicted of killing his father. The Interior Ministry identified the executed man as Bishoy Sharif...
View ArticleTaliban holds another public execution as thousands watch
ISLAMABAD — The Taliban held a public execution on Monday of a man convicted of murder in northern Afghanistan as thousands watched at a sports stadium, the third such death sentence to be carried out...
View ArticleIdaho halts execution after 8 failed attempts to insert IV line
KUNA, Idaho — Idaho halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday after medical team members repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an intravenous line to...
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