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Race to raise ‘blood money’ to halt an execution

May 16, 2024 World Justice News 0
A Kenyan mother, who has led a long and desperate campaign to save her son from execution in Saudi Arabia, was weak with relief when he was granted a temporary reprieve this week. Stephen Munyakho, […]
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Alabama prisoner ‘struggled for his life’ in nitrogen gas execution

January 27, 2024 World Justice News 0
A prisoner in Alabama has become the first inmate in the world to be executed with nitrogen gas. Convicted murderer Kenneth Smith, 58, was put to death after the US Supreme Court declined a legal […]
Kenneth Eugene Smith
Human Rights

US inmate faces first nitrogen execution after losing last-minute appeals

January 25, 2024 World Justice News 0
An Alabama death row inmate is expected to become the first person in the US to be executed with nitrogen gas, after losing last-minute appeals. The US Supreme Court and a lower appeals court declined […]
Anthony Sanchez
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US death row inmate Anthony Sanchez executed for rape and murder of Juli Busken after being caught by his DNA

September 22, 2023 World Justice News 0
A man has been executed in the US for the rape and murder of a dance student which went unsolved for years until DNA from the crime scene was matched to him while he was […]
Robert Bowers
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Gunman behind Pittsburgh synagogue shooting will be sentenced to death

August 3, 2023 World Justice News 0
A gunman will be sentenced to death after killing 11 worshippers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history. Jurors found Robert Bowers guilty in June for the October 2018 attack in […]
Richard Glossip
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Richard Glossip: US Supreme Court halts man’s fourth execution attempt

May 6, 2023 World Justice News 0
A convicted man in Oklahoma has escaped a fourth execution attempt after a rare intervention from the US Supreme Court. The court halted Richard Glossip’s 18 May execution after the state’s top lawman said he […]
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Idaho to let prisoners on death row be executed by firing squad if no lethal injections available

March 26, 2023 World Justice News 0
Idaho will allow prisoners on death row to be executed by firing squad due to a US nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs. Dwindling supplies of the substances needed have increasingly seen pharmaceutical companies ban […]
Alireza Akbari
Human Rights

Alireza Akbari: British-Iranian national accused of being UK spy executed in Iran

January 14, 2023 World Justice News 0
A British-Iranian national has been executed in Iran after being accused of spying for the UK. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was “appalled” by the execution of Alireza Akbari, saying: “This was a callous […]
Amber McLaughlin
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Openly transgender woman executed for the first time in US history

January 3, 2023 World Justice News 0
UPDATE: Amber McLaughlin’s fate was sealed earlier Tuesday when Missouri Gov. Mike Parson declined a clemency request. McLaughlin spoke quietly with a spiritual adviser at her side as the fatal dose of pentobarbital was injected. McLaughlin breathed […]
Majidreza Rahnavard
Human Rights

Iran public hanging: Second execution carried out over protests

December 12, 2022 World Justice News 0
Iran says it has publicly hanged a 23-year-old in what is the second execution linked to the recent anti-government protests. Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged early on Monday in the city of Mashhad, the judiciary […]

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