Execution

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

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.

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.

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.

Non-Muslims in Iran suffer persecution at the hands of the government, including imprisonment, torture, and execution, according to the U.S. State Department’s 2019 Report on International Religious Freedom.

The Iranian judiciary announced on Tuesday that Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd, described as “one of the spies for the CIA and Mossad,” has been sentenced to death for giving “the whereabouts of martyr Soleimani to our enemies.”

Saudi Arabia will no longer execute individuals convicted of crimes committed when they were minors, the U.N. Human Rights Commission said.

Iran has sentenced a man to death for allegedly spying for the CIA and attempting to share information about Tehran’s nuclear program, authorities said on Tuesday, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

Saudi Arabia executed 184 people in 2019 the most in six years, human rights organization Reprieve said on Monday.

Not only was former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death for treason on Tuesday, but on Thursday a special rider was attached to his death sentence stipulating that if he dies before he can be executed, his corpse must be “dragged” to the street outside parliament and “hanged for three days.”

The thesis of a new book by feminist Naomi Wolf is reportedly based upon the author’s misunderstanding of a British legal term, as Ms. Wolf learned to her distress while in the midst of a BBC radio interview last week.

Saudi Arabia executed 37 men convicted of terrorism offenses, including one who was crucified, the country’s state-run media agency revealed Tuesday.

CAIRO — Egyptian security officials say nine suspected Muslim Brotherhood members have been executed after being convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of the country’s top prosecutor.

A federal court blocked the execution of a Muslim inmate sitting on death row on Wednesday after it ruled the state of Alabama violated his religious liberties under the Constitution for not allowing an imam to be present in the execution chamber.

North Korea reportedly executed an artillery commander in public in an airfield this week on charges of “insubordination” and “immorality.”

News of an American pullout from Syria on Wednesday raised many questions about whether the Islamic State has been truly defeated.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran executed the so-called “Sultan of Coins” and his accomplice on Wednesday for hoarding gold coins and other hard currency, signaling zero tolerance as it tries to shore up its currency in the face of an economic crisis.

Four inmates on Tennessee’s death row requested to be put to death by a firing squad because they felt death by lethal injection or electrocution was “cruel and unusual punishment.”