White supremacist Dylann Roof sentenced to death for killing nine black...
The US Justice Department said he is the first person to get the death penalty for federal hate crimes.
View Article'Go straight to hell': Victims' families confront mass murderer Dylann Roof
Some shouted at him, while others offered forgiveness for the mass shooting in South Carolina in 2015.
View ArticleCourt orders new trial for death row inmate who psychologist said was more...
“Our law punishes people for what they do, not who they are.”
View Article'If you have the death penalty, you can't be in the EU' - The simple message...
Jean-Claude Juncker has made it a red line issue
View ArticleUS state plans to put eight men to death over 10-day period
Arkansas says the unprecedented timetable is necessary because one of the ingredients in the lethal injection will soon expire.
View ArticleDeath row inmates file lawsuit to prevent executions of eight men in 10 days
Arkansas has scheduled the executions in order to use its supply of a lethal injection drug before it expires.
View ArticleState of Arkansas to fight for permission to go ahead with 8 executions in 11...
A federal judge issued stays for each of the inmates on Saturday.
View ArticleSupreme Court blocks last-minute attempt by Arkansas to execute murderer
Justices declined an appeal from the state’s attorney general to lift a stay barring the execution of Don Davis.
View ArticleArkansas rushes to execute prisoners this week - before lethal drugs expire
The US state’s stock of a controversial sedative will expire at the end of the month.
View ArticleUS state of Arkansas executes two prisoners in one night
This is the first time in 17 years in the US that a state has executed two people in the space of 24 hours.
View ArticleArkansas execution spree ends after another man is put to death
The prisoner was seen to convulse 20 times before he died.
View ArticleQatar will execute a man who killed a British teacher and burned her body in...
The death penalty is rarely used in Qatar.
View ArticleA US prisoner will face the death penalty tonight - for the eighth time
Tommy Arthur was first sentenced to death back in 1983 for a murder he denies committing.
View ArticleLast-minute appeals for mentally ill prisoner due to be executed tomorrow in...
William Morva was convicted of killing a police officer and a prison guard.
View ArticleMan put to death using new lethal injection for racist murder
Mark Asay took 10 minutes to die.
View ArticleTwo women accused of assassinating North Korean leader's half brother plead...
Kim Jong-nam was killed by a toxic nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia last February.
View Article'I can feel that': First US inmate executed in 2018 claimed drug used to kill...
Anthony Shore was put to death for raping, torturing and murdering three girls in the 1980s and 1990s.
View ArticleFlorida killer yells 'murderers!' as he is put to death
Eric Scott Branch killed a 21-year-old in 1993.
View ArticleDeath row prisoner who hired hitman to kill his family given last-minute...
His father appealed for his life.
View ArticleAlmost 1,000 executions were recorded last year, including beheadings and...
Most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan – in that order.
View ArticleIndia approves death penalty for people convicted of raping children under 12
Violent crime against women has been on the rise in India despite tough laws enacted in 2013.
View ArticleIndonesian cleric sentenced to death over terror attack
Four people died in the attack at a Starbucks café in 2016.
View ArticleUK suspends cooperation with US over fears 'The Beatles' Isis suspects could...
The two suspected British jihadists were captured by US-backed Syrian forces.
View ArticleMan executed in Nebraska prison using untested lethal injection
Carey Dean Moore received a lethal concoction containing diazepam, fentanyl and potassium chloride.
View ArticleTexas executes Mexican man who killed his wife and two young children
Mexico and human rights groups have long maintained that Roberto Ramos was not informed of his legal rights.
View ArticleDeath row inmate chooses electric chair over lethal injection, second inmate...
Both David Earl Miller and Edmund Zagorski before him chose the electric chair over lethal injection.
View Article'Hostage politics': Campaigners condemn death penalty for Canadian citizen in...
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was convicted of drug smuggling.
View ArticleAlabama executed a Muslim inmate and refused his request to have an imam in...
The state had a Christian chaplain present instead.
View ArticleTemporary reprieve for more than 700 death row inmates as California suspends...
The west-coast state hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, but 25 inmates have exhausted all of their appeals.
View Article'A human rights pariah': Brunei implements death by stoning for gay sex and...
The laws will make Brunei the first country in East or Southeast Asia to have a sharia penal code at the national level.
View ArticleAlabama had to call off an execution at the last minute after it was unable...
The bid to stop the execution centred on the inmate’s request to inhale nitrogen gas rather than face lethal injection.
View ArticleUS mother asks that ex-husband who murdered their five children be spared...
Timothy Jones Jr. was convicted of five counts of murder last week.
View ArticleThe US government is to start executions again and five murderers have...
The executions will be carried out by a single lethal injection.
View ArticleFlorida to execute serial killer who preyed on older, gay men along US east...
Gary Ray Bowles left six dead over a six-month killing spree.
View ArticleMan who murdered 19 people at disability care home in Japan is sentenced to...
The court ruled that the former employee of the facility deserved no leniency.
View ArticleSaudi Arabia makes move to abolish death penalty for minors
The decision follows another ordering judges to end the practice of flogging.
View ArticleMissouri executes man whose last words were to maintain his innocence
Walter Barton was convicted of murder at a fifth trial in 2006 but maintained his innocence.
View ArticleTexas resumes executions after months-long shutdown due to Covid-19
Billy Joe Wardlow, convicted for murder, was given the lethal injection yesterday evening.
View ArticleUS judge halts federal executions hours before resumption
The US government was expected to appeal against the decision in a bid to carry out the first such execution since 2003.
View ArticleMan executed by the US in Trump’s final days in office despite pleas for...
Four more federal executions are set to be carried out before Joe Biden is inaugurated next month.
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