Breaking news
The number of executions in Saudi Arabia dropped dramatically last year following the halting of executions for non-violent drug-related crimes. The Saudi government’s Human Rights Commission (HRC) said Monday it documented 27 executions in 2020. That’s compared to an all-time high of 184 executions the year before as documented by Amnesty International and Human Rights … Read more
The crime for which Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death is about as horrific as one can imagine. In December 2004, she strangled a pregnant dog breeder, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, having pretended to be interested in buying one of her puppies, and used a kitchen knife to cut her baby out of her belly, whom she … Read more
Taiwan tries to make its executions ‘more humane’ with new rules allowing the condemned to be hooded (before they are sedated and shot in the heart) Condemned in Taiwan are currently laid face-down and shot in the heart They are also given a powerful sedative before being shot through the back New rules will allow … Read more
Yara Shahidi speaks out against executions in Iran and acknowledges the dangers for her family living there: ‘If you know me, you know I value life’ By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 08:15 BST, 16 July 2020 | Updated: 09:33 BST, 16 July 2020 Yara Shahidi is speaking out against scheduled executions of anti-government protestors … Read more
Texas executes its first death row prisoner in five months after coronavirus led to a pause: Robber was 18 when he killed man ‘like an executioner’ to steal his truck Billy Joe Wardlow died by lethal injection after a five-month delay The 45-year-old has been behind bars in Texas since he shot a man, 82, … Read more
Billy Joe Wardlow, now 45, is scheduled to be executed today Texas will execute its first death row prisoner in five months today as a five-month pause amid coronavirus ends. Billy Joe Wardlow, 45, is scheduled to die by lethal injection as the nation’s busiest death penalty state prepared to resume executions. Wardlow was 18 … Read more
Daniel Lewis Lee, 47-year-old avowed white supremacist, was scheduled to be put to death on Monday for the 1996 murder of a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl in Arkansas Four death-row inmates, including a white supremacist, have been scheduled for execution by the Justice Department, and will be the first prisoners to be … Read more
Hunt for Britain’s 2000-year-old gladiators: Archaeologists are to dig up ancient Kent amphitheatre in hopes of finding proof it was a venue for blood-soaked Roman contests… or public executions Roman amphitheatre is due to be excavated by English Heritage from March The buried arena was the landing site for the Claudian Invasion of AD 43 … Read more