Oklahoma 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 ArticlePNP identifies 11 suspects in murder of 4 Negros Oriental cops
MANILA, Philippines — Police have identified 11 suspected members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) who are believed to be behind
View ArticleUS government will execute inmates for first time since 2003
The Justice Department said the federal government will resume executing death-row inmates for the first time since 2003.
View ArticleJapan 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...
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