Louisiana is set to become the fourth state to permit executions using nitrogen gas after a bill successfully passed a legislative hurdle. HB 6 was presented during a special legislative session dedicated to criminal justice matters that opened last week after the first nitrogen gas execution in the United States, carried out by Alabama corrections […]
DUBAI/LONDON—Iran has executed a British-Iranian national who once served as its deputy defense minister, its judiciary said, defying calls from London and Washington for his release after he was handed the death sentence on charges of spying for Britain. Britain, which had declared the case against Alireza Akbari politically motivated, condemned the execution, with Prime […]
The Iranian regime hanged two men on Saturday for allegedly killing a member of its security forces during nationwide protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16, drawing condemnation from the EU, the United States, and other Western nations. Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini had been convicted […]
Iran was expelled from the U.N.’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Wednesday over policies contrary to the rights of women and girls. The move was proposed by the United States following the death of Masa Amini, the 22-year-old woman killed by Iran’s “morality police,” and adopted by the 54-member U.N. Economic and Social […]
Burma’s military junta has executed four democracy activists convicted of terrorism in a move swiftly condemned by international human rights groups. The four men were executed for committing “violent and inhuman acts of terrorism,” the junta’s Information Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. This marks the first executions carried out by Burma in decades. […]
FLORENCE, Ariz.—An Arizona man convicted of murder in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl was put to death Wednesday in the state’s second execution since officials resumed carrying out the death penalty in May following a nearly eight-year hiatus. Frank Atwood, 66, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence for his […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Gov. Bill Lee paused executions in Tennessee for the rest of the year on Monday to enable a review of its lethal injection procedures after a testing oversight forced the state to call off the execution of Oscar Smith an hour before he was to die. A federal public defender praised the Republican governor […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed 81 people convicted of crimes ranging from killings to belonging to militant groups, the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom in its modern history. The number of executed surpassed even the toll of a January 1980 mass execution for the 63 militants convicted of […]
BONNE TERRE, Mo.—A Missouri man was put to death Tuesday for killing three workers while robbing a convenience store nearly three decades ago, an execution performed over objections from racial justice activists, lawmakers, and even the pope. Ernest Johnson died from an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre. He silently mouthed […]
Oklahoma City—The Oklahoma attorney general’s office has asked the state’s Court of Criminal Appeals to push back execution dates for seven death row inmates based on requirements to give a 35-day notice before any execution. Attorney General John O’Connor asked the court in a brief filed Friday to schedule John Marion Grant’s execution for Oct. […]
The United Nations high commissioner for human rights announced on Tuesday she obtained “credible reports” of serious human rights violations, including “summary executions,” by Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan. Michelle Bachelet didn’t provide additional details on the findings while speaking at an emergency meeting with the UN Human Rights Council, but she urged members of the […]
Florida rescue efforts back in full force. But major challenges ahead, including safety concerns about the rest of the building, and a storm coming their way.
Sheriffs and ICE agents are suing President Joe Biden over what they call his unlawful deportation policy. That’s while a GOP representative warns there is no operational control of the border after seeing migrants pour in and board flights to other states.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland pauses all federal executions pending a review of policies. This is another change in direction from the Trump administration which carried out the first federal executions in 17 years.
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department filed an emergency motion with a federal appeals court on Saturday seeking to move forward with the first federal execution in nearly two decades. Daniel Lee, 47, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Monday at a federal prison in Indiana. He was convicted in Arkansas of the 1996 killings […]
ATLANTA—Corrections officials in Georgia are preparing to execute a man convicted of fatally shooting a convenience store clerk more than 30 years ago. Jimmy Fletcher Meders, 58, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to die for the October 1987 […]
