Execution

A convicted serial rapist and murderer is waiting to be executed in Oklahoma after his actions devastated several families.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted the execution of Robert Leslie Roberson, III, who is currently housed on death row in the state’s Polunsky Unit. The court sent the case back to the East Texas Piney Woods trial court in Palestine to consider Roberson’s “new” or “junk” science claim. Roberson’s execution was set for October 16, 2025.

The execution date has been set for Christa Pike, Tennessee’s only female prisoner on death row, according to reports.

A man who killed his wife and two children became the ninth person to be executed in Florida this year after officials administered lethal drugs on Thursday.

A second South Carolina death row inmate, 41-year-old Mikal Mahdi, has chosen to have his execution carried out by a firing squad.

South Carolina executed double murderer Brad Sigmon via firing squad Friday, making him the first U.S. inmate to die by firing squad in 15 years.

The German Foreign Ministry on Tuesday recalled Ambassador to Iran Markus Potzel, then summoned Iran’s envoy in Berlin to lodge a formal protest against Iran’s execution of Jamshid Sharmahd, a German citizen who resided in California.

The final words of a 48-year-old Utah man convicted of murdering his former girlfriend’s mother were directed towards those present and his family members during his execution on Thursday.

A Texas man convicted of abducting, sexually assaulting, and killing a woman in 2001 was executed via chemical injection on Wednesday.

Experts with the United Nations are concerned about the execution of an Alabama man being carried out by nitrogen hypoxia.

A man was executed Friday in Alabama after he brutally murdered an elderly woman in 2001 inside her home.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) signed legislation over the weekend legalizing the use of firing squads to carry out execution sentences in his state.

Firing squads are making a comeback, and Idaho is on the verge of becoming the fifth state to use the execution method.

A study published this week by two human rights organizations found that executions in Saudi Arabia rose a prodigious 82 percent between 2015, the year King Salman came to power, and 2022.

Progressive Democrat Rep. Cori Bush (MO) faced backlash online after lamenting the recent execution of Amber (previously “Scott”) McLaughlin, a biological man identifying as a transgender woman who was convicted of brutally raping and killing his ex-girlfriend.

The man who raped and killed a teenage girl in 2000 was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

The Missouri man who killed a police officer years ago was executed Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre.

After 26 years on Alabama’s death row, Joe Nathan James was executed Thursday night despite the objections of the victim’s family.

PARIS – Executions in Iran have more than doubled in the first half of 2022, an NGO said Friday, warning that the surge in hangings was aimed at spreading fear at a time of protests.

Texas’ oldest death row inmate was put to death Thursday for killing a policeman almost 32 years ago as people gathered to support the fallen officer.

A Chicago man convicted of murdering a 14-year-old girl, a judge says he “discarded like garbage,” has been sentenced to 105 years in prison.

South Carolina death row inmate Richard Moore has chosen to be executed by a firing squad when his sentence is carried out on April 29, 2022. 

South Carolina has set a date for its first death row execution since renovating its Death Chamber to accommodate death by firing squad. 

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is running damage control after three men were executed during his oil-begging visit to Saudi Arabia.

UNITED NATIONS — Iran executed over 250 people, including at least four child offenders, in 2020 and so far this year has carried out 230 executions that included nine women and one child who was executed in secret, the U.N. independent investigator on human rights in Iran said Monday.

Former British army Col. Ash Alexander-Cooper, who served as an adviser to the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs, reported on Tuesday that an Afghan sniper who worked with British special forces was hunted down by the Taliban and brutally executed in front of his family in Kabul.

The BBC reported on Sunday that a pregnant Afghan police officer in the provincial capital of Firozkoh was shot dead by Taliban fighters in front of her family.

Afghan armed forces veteran and Badghis provincial police chief Haji Mullah Achakzai was allegedly executed by the Taliban in a gruesome video posted on social media. The police chief was bound, blindfolded, forced to kneel, murdered by Taliban gunmen, and left lying in the sand.

Taliban terrorists “captured and executed” a Reuters photojournalist in July as he covered a military offensive led by the jihadist group near the Afghan city of Kandahar, an Afghan security official claimed to India Today on Tuesday.

A Taliban spokesman confirmed Thursday that Taliban thugs murdered comedian Nazar Mohammad in southern Afghanistan shortly after a video went viral that showed Mohammad being abducted and beaten.

A police officer in his thirties was fatally shot while on patrol in a “vulnerable area” of Gothenberg, Sweden, in what one person with knowledge of the investigation claimed was an “execution”. While a criminal clan crime gang source told local media that it will be difficult for investigators to find the perpetrator because “if you kill a policeman, you do not act alone” and clans won’t tolerate “rats”.

Members of the South Carolina House have voted to add death by firing squad as a state execution method due to a lack of lethal injection drugs.

Tehran — Iran’s foreign ministry Sunday summoned Germany’s envoy to protest the EU’s condemnation of the execution of an opposition figure, describing it as an “unacceptable interference” in Tehran’s affairs, state media reported.

The bodies of two dissidents in Belarus were reportedly found last week hanged in forests in two separate incidents. Police have declared the deaths suicides, but opposition supporters say they suspect foul play on the part of Belarus security forces.

Iran on Sunday halted the execution of three young men arrested during protests against the regime in November, one of the accused’s lawyers revealed.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has executed a former employee of the defense ministry who was convicted of spying on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency, the country’s judiciary said Tuesday. It was the second such execution in the past month.