Steven Nelson, convicted for the 2011 murder of a pastor, is scheduled for execution in Texas on Feb. 5. The church where the murder occurred supports the execution, citing biblical justification ...

Taiwan carried out its first execution in five years. This is the first case of capital punishment under President Lai Ching-te, who took office last year. Rights groups and the European Union ...

This marks the first execution order signed by minister of justice Cheng Ming-chien since assuming office in May last year. In 2017, the Supreme Court upheld Linkai’s death sentence for the ...

“Because it cannot be said with reasonable confidence that the current execution protocol ‘not only afford[s] the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States’ but ...

China has executed a man who killed 35 people by plowing his car into crowds at a sports center in November, in the country’s deadliest known attack against the public in a decade, state media ...

But we do think there’s a reason. Canadiens defenceman Mike Matheson, centre Kirby Dach and coach Martin St. Louis all referenced faulty execution when speaking with reporters at Little Caesars ...

Read more. Story idea? [email protected]. A date has been set for the execution of South Carolina death row inmate Marion Bowman Jr. His execution is set for Jan. 31 following a notice issued ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan carried out its first execution in five years late on Thursday, upsetting both rights groups and the European Union which called on the government to maintain its de ...

The execution of an inmate on Thursday by Taiwan, marking the first death penalty carried out by the island’s authorities in five years, has sparked condemnation from rights groups. Death row inmate ...

Syria’s interim justice minister has come under scrutiny following the resurfacing of old videos reportedly showing him reading execution sentences in Idlib. The videos, verified by the fact ...

The execution of an Alabama prisoner on Jan. 25 involved the first new death penalty method employed in decades and the first execution in the U.S. of 2024. Kenneth Eugene Smith – who was ...

[1] The most notorious death execution in BC was about 399 BC when the Greek philosopher Socrates was required to drink poison for heresy and corruption of youth.[2] Mosaic Law codified many ...