The Taliban's apparent execution of an Afghan police chief comes days after the group promised they wouldn't take action against their enemies.
Trump-appointee Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch cast the deciding vote with his first recorded vote as a justice on the high court.
The bill would require death row inmates to choose between being shot by firing squad or electrocuted amid the state's lack of lethal injections.
Brandon Bernard, who was was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday, was the ninth federal inmate to be executed this year. Four more executions are scheduled to take place before President Donald Trump’s term is up. At 13 executions, the Trump administration is on track to execute more […]
Barring a last minute order from the Supreme Court, the first federal inmate in 17 years is due to be executed on Monday. Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, was convicted in the 1996 murders of a family of three in Arkansas. His execution was postponed on Friday because of the coronavirus […]
Alabama inmate Nathaniel Woods was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday night. Woods was convicted in 2005 of killing three Birmingham police officers, though his co-defendant, Kerry Spencer, has admitted to killing the men and said Woods was “100% innocent.” Spencer said Woods did not have a gun […]
The campaign account of a Republican vying for Rep. Ilhan Omar’s seat was banned from Twitter after accusing Omar of treason and suggesting she should be hanged, The Washington Times first reported. Danielle Stella’s campaign account, @2020MNCongress, promoted unsubstantiated claims that Omar illegally shared sensitive government information with Qatar and […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US is investigating a report that North Korea executed the official that served as the special envoy to the US during the summit between the US and North Korea. South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported that Kim Hyok Chol was executed after […]
Rights groups have expressed alarm after Saudi Arabia carried out mass executions of 37 prisoners on charges it says are related to terrorism. One of the men was crucified after his death, a punishment usually reserved for the most heinous crimes. Tuesday’s executions were the largest mass execution in the […]
A man dubbed China’s “Jack the Ripper” has been executed, according to police and state media. Gao Chengyong was executed on Thursday after pleading guilty to the murder of 11 women and girls. Chengyong targeted women dressed in red, followed them home, and raped and killed them, according to state […]
Saudi Arabia has handed the death penalty to four men accused of training in Iranian terror “camps” who planned to assassinate “prominent figures.” State media said the men travelled to Iran and trained with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The ruling came just a day after the UN published a […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has issued a standing order for the execution of former South Korean president Park Geun-hye. According to the North’s state news agency KCNA, a “revelation showed” Park had planned to assassinate its leader in 2015. “We declare at home and abroad that we will […]
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Indonesia has put a moratorium on all executions to turn its focus on fixing the stalling economy. The ABC is reporting that the coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, Luhut Panjaitan made the announcement this morning. The country’s economic growth dipped below 5% for two consecutive quarters this […]
