Missouri executed inmate Ernest Johnson on Oct. 5 for murder despite appeals from advocates who said he had an intellectual disability. Johnson, a 61-year-old Black man, received lethal injection at a state prison in Bonne Terre after being convicted for …
A Chinese court has affirmed Canadian Drug Suspect Robert Schellenberg’s death sentence. Schellenberg has been held in Chinese custody since 2014 when he was accused of attempting to transport 225kg of methamphetamine to Australia. He was convicted to 15 years …
Four out of five of the world’s top executioners in 2020 were Middle Eastern countries, Amnesty International reported on April 21. According to the human rights organization’s annual death penalty report, Iran, Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia accounted for 88% …
A Saudi criminal court has convicted a Saudi woman for killing her Bangladeshi housekeeper in 2019, a government official from Bangladesh said. In a rare judgment, Ayesha Al Jizani was convicted with the death sentence on Sunday, for the death …
Five members of an Islamist Militant Group were sentenced to death Tuesday morning in a case involving the murder of a US blogger nearly 6 years ago. Avijit Roy, an anti-extremism blogger, was killed by members of the Ansar Ullah …
The US Supreme court has stayed the execution of an inmate in Alabama because no pastor was present. Inmate Willie B. Smith III was scheduled to receive a lethal injection for murder but requested that he wanted his spiritual adviser …
In a landmark judgment, the Pakistan Supreme Court has banned the imposition of the death penalty on prisoners suffering from mental illness, on Wednesday. The Supreme Court’s judgment read, “we hold that if a condemned prisoner, due to mental illness, …