Serial 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...
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