3 suspected drug pushers shot dead in Ecija, Pangasinan
Two suspected drug pushers were killed by unidentified gunmen in the Nueva Ecija towns of Cabaioa and San Antonio on Tuesday night (June 14), while a third alleged pusher was shot dead by...
View Article2 women, man on drug list found dead in Ecija town irrigation canal
Two women and a man were found dead at an irrigation canal in Llanera town, Nueva Ecija, on Wednesday (July 6), police said. The three were said to be on the cops' drug watchlist in Talavera town in...
View ArticleIndonesia rebuffs UN, EU appeals to halt looming executions
Indonesia quickly rebuffed appeals from the U.N. human rights chief and the European Union to abandon plans to execute 14 people for drug crimes as preparations intensified Thursday at the prison...
View ArticleIndonesia executes 4 drug traffickers
CILACAP, Indonesia — Indonesia executed four people convicted of drug crimes on Friday despite international protests and said it would decide later when as many as 10 others would be put to death. One...
View ArticleRedemption, not execution; reformation, not exclusion
(Editor’s Note: A hundred days after President Duterte declared an all-out war against illegal drugs, cash-strapped communities are scrambling to address a phenomenal number of drug users and pushers...
View ArticleSaudi prince executed for murder
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed a member of the royal family for murder, in a rare case involving one of the thousands of members of the House of Saud. Prince Turki bin Saud...
View Article‘PH could go down as world’s new top executioner’—Atienza
The wish of President Rodrigo Duterte to execute five to six convicts daily would plunge the country into the dark ages of "savagery" and make the country a top executioner, a pro-life solon said. The...
View ArticlePawa execution a case vs reimposition of death penalty in PH–CBCP
The execution of Jakatia Pawa in Kuwait only stresses that the death penalty should never be reinstated in the country. The post Pawa execution a case vs reimposition of death penalty in PH–CBCP...
View ArticleJordan executes 10 men convicted of terror charges
Jordan on Saturday executed 10 men convicted of terrorism charges, including deadly attacks on tourists, Jordanian security forces and a local writer, the government spokesman said. The post Jordan...
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." The post Killer on death row seeks execution via firing squad appeared first...
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...
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