Singapore executed a mentally challenged Malaysian man who was sentenced to death for drug offenses on Wednesday, despite international pleas to save him. Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, aged 34, was sentenced to death over a decade ago after being found guilty …
A court in east China announced on Thursday that it sentenced a US citizen to death for murdering his Chinese girlfriend in 2021. “The Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court holds that the accused, Shadeed Abdulmateen, deliberately and illegally deprived the life …
The Huntsville state penitentiary has executed Texas’ oldest death row inmate on Thursday for the murder of a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ago. Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was executed for the fatal shooting of …
An Indonesian court sentenced an Indonesian teacher to death on Monday for raping 13 students at an Islamic boarding school and impregnating at least eight of the victims upholding an appeal by prosecutors for the death penalty after the court …
A court in Bangladesh has sentenced four people to death for killing a blogger and science writer critical of hardline religious thought in 2015. Judge Nurul Amin Biplob of the Sylhet Anti-Terrorism Tribunal told a packed courtroom on Wednesday that …
South Carolina is now prepared to perform executions by firing squad because of the state’s inability to procure drugs for lethal injections. The state Department of Corrections said on Friday that death row inmates will now be allowed to choose …
Saudi Arabia executed 81 men on March 12 for terrorism-related offenses, its Interior Ministry announced. All those executed were found “guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes that left a large number of civilians and law enforcement officers dead,” the Saudi …
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday has reinstated the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. A jury in federal district court in Massachusetts has convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on 30 counts for the Boston bombing and recommended the …
An Iraqi court on Monday sentenced to death by hanging two al-Qaeda terrorists on charges of plenty of subversive activities, including killing of citizens in the capital city of Baghdad. Shafaq News Agency reported that the Criminal Court in Dhi …
The government of Iran has executed two LGBTI men who were convicted on charges of sodomy and spent six years on death row, a rights group reported. The Human Rights Activists News Agency in a report identified the two men …
