
A gunman ambushed 33-year old Philadelphia police officer Jesse Hartnett on Thursday night. His attacker is in custody and claims it was an attempted “execution” in the name of Islam.
by John Hayward8 Jan 2016, 7:58 AM PST0

When Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi Shiite cleric on New Year’s Eve, the Shiite world ignited in protest. According to the Iranian regime, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr’s execution was not justified. The Saudi government, however, thinks otherwise.
by Jordan Schachtel5 Jan 2016, 6:01 PM PST0

On Monday, a group calling itself the Universal Muslim Association of America (UMAA) launched an unusual protest against the Saudi Arabian government’s execution of Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, asking people to inundate the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington D.C. with potatoes.
by William Bigelow5 Jan 2016, 8:06 AM PST0

The most prominent leaders in the Shiite world have issued threatening statements against the Saudi monarchy, pledging that the House of Saud will pay a price for executing Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who was an influential cleric among the Saudi Shiite minority.
by Jordan Schachtel4 Jan 2016, 7:11 AM PST0

A mob at a Muslim shrine in central Kabul killed an Afghan woman who was falsely accused of burning the Koran, showing that Afghanistan has not changed much despite more than 14 years of U.S.-led engagement.
by Edwin Mora28 Dec 2015, 7:21 PM PST0

Iran has lodged a protest with Saudi Arabia over the execution of three Iranian citizens accused of smuggling hashish, warning that the Saudis’ appetite for executions is a source of continuing tension between the two countries.
by John Hayward9 Nov 2015, 5:51 PM PST0

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Violence has returned to this border city as a group of hooded gunmen broke into a house and executed a man in front of his wife. The only things the gunmen took were two cell phones. Piedras Negras sits immediately across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas.
by Cartel Chronicles5 Nov 2015, 3:02 AM PST0

The latest in a long series of hideous execution videos from the Islamic State shows a 19-year-old Syrian soldier bound hand and foot, made to stand in the middle of a road, and crushed beneath the treads of a tank.
by John Hayward26 Oct 2015, 8:37 PM PST0

The Islamic State has released a videotaped execution of three Assyrian Christian hostages, captured during a February offensive in Syria. The lives of hundreds more Christian captives remain in the balance, a point the savages emphasized by making three of them beg for ransom payments on camera.
by John Hayward8 Oct 2015, 9:31 PM PST0

The U.S. Supreme Court refused earlier this week to hear an appeal filed by a Brownsville, Texas, man accused of stabbing an 85-year-old woman to death. Ruben Gutierrez, 38, was 21 at the time of the capital murder.
by Lana Shadwick7 Oct 2015, 11:13 AM PST0

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in London, a 22-year-old woman in the Syrian city of Deir al-Ezzor was imprisoned for two months, and then executed, by the Islamic State for speaking “disrespectfully” about the “caliphate” on the WhatsApp social media platform.
by John Hayward22 Sep 2015, 1:53 PM PST0

A still greiving father, Steve Ronnebeck, shared with Breitbart Texas on Wednesday that a Mexican cartel “executed my son.” Ronnebeck’s son was killed by an illegal alien, self-proclaimed Sinaloa cartel member. The criminal alien is now facing charges for shooting Grant Ronnebeck during the 21-year-old’s overnight shift at the Mesa, Arizona, QT convenience store.
by Michelle Moons17 Sep 2015, 11:26 AM PST0

The latest novel execution method to emerge from the gruesome imagination of the Islamic State is a throwback to cartoon villainy: they trussed the two men up, put them in a ruined building with some dynamite, and made them watch the sputtering fuse burn down until the explosion killed them.
by John Hayward9 Sep 2015, 8:09 PM PST0

An illegal alien from Nicaragua, scheduled for execution in Huntsville, Texas, on Wednesday evening, received a stay of execution from the state’s highest criminal court.
by Lana Shadwick26 Aug 2015, 3:37 PM PST0

United Press International (UPI) reports that North Korean soldiers are using pictures of South Korean President Park Geun-hye for target practice. They are putting pictures of her on targets and blasting away, with the “training session” broadcast by the dictatorship’s TV station as propaganda.
by John Hayward15 Aug 2015, 10:54 AM PST0

A new ISIS video shows a young child executing a man whom ISIS accused of spying.
by Mary Chastain5 Aug 2015, 5:03 AM PST0

North Korean officials have confirmed that Hyon Yong Choi, the hermit kingdom’s former defense minister, was put to death for “insubordination,” South Korean media outlet YTN reported Monday.
by Jordan Schachtel16 Jun 2015, 10:58 AM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) reportedly beheaded a Libyan soldier in front of a group of six-year-olds for “educational purposes.” Supporters of ISIS posted the horrific pictures on social media.
by Mary Chastain5 Jun 2015, 11:09 AM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) used an ancient Roman amphitheater in Syria’s historic city of Palmyra for a mass execution of prisoners, forcing civilians to watch, according to a monitory group.
by Edwin Mora29 May 2015, 5:41 PM PST0

On Monday, only five days before he will fight Floyd Mayweather, 38, in the richest fight in history, Filipino fighter Manny Pacquiao, 36, appeared on a video call on the Philippines, GMA News TV to plead with Indonesian President Joko Widodo for the life of a Filipina scheduled to be executed on Tuesday for dealing drugs.
by William Bigelow27 Apr 2015, 7:07 AM PST0

The National Council of Resistance in Iran, an opposition group, reported this week that the Islamic republic has executed 65 people in one week, putting them on pace to set a new record in 2015.
by Mary Chastain21 Apr 2015, 11:10 AM PST0

Bangledeshi authorities executed Jamaat-e-Islami party official Muhammad Kamaruzzaman for crimes against humanity during the country’s war of independence forty years ago. He was hanged two years after he was sentenced to death.
by Mary Chastain12 Apr 2015, 4:54 PM PST0

Kent William Sprouse, 42 years-of-age, was put to death at 6:33 CST on April 9, 2015 in Huntsville, Texas, for fatally shooting Ferris Police Officer Harry Marvin “Marty” Steinfeldt III. The murder occurred at a Ferris, Texas, Diamond Shamrock gas station and food mart on October 6, 2002. Sprouse is the fifth Texas death row inmate to be executed this year. There were no late-filed appeals to stop the execution.
by Lana Shadwick9 Apr 2015, 4:52 PM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) released pictures of jihadists beheading a man they allege had been practicing “witchcraft” in Tikrit.
by Mary Chastain9 Apr 2015, 11:08 AM PST0

The government of Saudi Arabia executed three people on Tuesday via beheadings. The total number of beheadings in the strict Muslim country totals 48 in 2015 already, more than half the total beheadings in 2014.
by Mary Chastain18 Mar 2015, 7:01 AM PST0