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A Muslim spy who was executed by the Nazis at Dachau concentration camp in 1944 is the first Indian-origin woman to be honoured with a blue plaque. Noor Inayat Khan, of Indian and US descent, served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), which was set up by Sir Winston Churchill in 1940. The English Heritage … Read more
‘Coronavirus-rage’ killer who stabbed two people to death at a quarantine checkpoint is executed in China 23-year-old Ma Jianguo attacked the pair with a folding knife in Yunnan, China The victims were trying to prevent him from driving past a blockade with a van Jianguo stabbed both men in the abdomen multiple times and murdered … Read more
A court in China has ordered two convicted drug dealers to be executed immediately during an open trial this week. The pair, Lin Shanju and Li Zhiping, were caught dealing 9,511 grams (21 pounds) of heroin and 27,077 grams (60 pounds) of crystal meth in the southern province of Hainan in the space of one … Read more
A Missouri inmate on Tuesday became the first person to be executed since the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Walter Barton, 64, died by lethal injection for killing Gladys Kuehler, 81, in 1991. A jury recently said that ‘compelling’ new evidence made them feel ‘uncomfortable’ about the conviction and he had long maintained his innocence. His case … Read more
The mother of Jyoti Singh, who was gang-raped and murdered on a New Dehli bus in 2012, has spoken out over the executions of her daughter’s killers today, seven years after their crime. Outside the capital’s Tihar prison where the rapists were executed Asha Devi, 51, declared ‘the beasts have been hanged’ as she made … Read more
Four men are executed over the 2012 gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in Delhi that shocked the world Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were all executed The four were hanged in the high-security Tihar prison in India’s capital on Friday Their deaths mark the first executions in the … Read more
A murderer has been executed in Tennessee, making him the fifth inmate to die in the electric chair since 2018. Nicholas Sutton, 58, was pronounced dead at 7:26pm CST, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction. In his last words he thanked God and said that he was ‘a winner’ in death. He paid tribute … Read more
A murderer has been executed in Tennessee, making him the fifth inmate to die in the electric chair since 2018. Nicholas Sutton, 58, was pronounced dead at 7:26pm CST, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction. In his last words he thanked God and said that he was ‘a winner’ in death. He paid tribute … Read more