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Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment. The state said the method would be humane, but critics called it . . .
In what human rights groups warn is just the start of a violent campaign of political repression, the Islamic Republic of Iran has begun executing protesters in the ongoing civil unrest following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in custody of the government’s morality police. On December 8, 2022, the Iranian regime hanged 23-year-old […]
Myanmar’s junta has executed four prisoners including a former politician and a veteran activist, drawing shock and revulsion at the country’s first use of capital punishment in decades. Junta-controlled media reported on Monday that four men, including Phyo Zeya Thaw, a rapper and former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, and the prominent democracy […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The state of Alabama on Thursday executed Willie B. Smith, an intellectually disabled Black man, for the murder of Sharma Ruth Johnson in 1991. The execution took place at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. The execution was set to happen at 6 p.m., but did not start until shortly after 9:30 […]
Johnson — who was convicted of robbing a gas station and murdering three clerks nearly 27 years ago — was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. CT after the administration of a lethal injection, according to Karen Pojmann, communications director for the Missouri Department of Corrections. The petition from Johnson’s lawyers, which was submitted to Justice […]
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