Edmund, Okla. — An Oklahoma city has agreed to pay more than $7 million to a former death row inmate who was exonerated after nearly 50 years in prison, making …
Bangladesh’s deadliest executioner died Monday a year after he was released from prison where he hanged some of the country’s notorious serial killers, opposition politicians convicted of war crimes, and …
Iran’s Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a government critic and a popular hip-hop artist, Toomaj Salehi — who came to fame over his lyrics about the death in …
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has ordered a stay of execution and proceedings in the contempt suit filed at the Kogi State High Court by former Governor Yahaya Bello …
The execution of convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen hypoxia was “textbook,” Alabama’s attorney general Steve Marshall said in a news conference on Friday. The execution was carried out on Thursday night and marked …
It marked the first time that a new execution method has been used in the United States since lethal injection, now the most commonly used method, was introduced in 1982. …
By Dakin Andone and Devan Cole | CNN The US Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt the execution of Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Smith, who is scheduled to …
Mohammad Ghobadlou, a 23-year-old man, was executed in Iran after being charged with killing a police officer and spreading “corruption on earth” during the 2022 protests that followed the death …
Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in …
China has executed two Filipinos for drug trafficking despite high-level Philippine government appeals to commute their death sentences to life in prison, the Philippine government said on Saturday. The Department …