The number of executions in Saudi Arabia dropped dramatically last year following the halting of executions for non-violent drug-related crimes. The Saudi government’s Human Rights Commission (HRC) said Monday it documented 27 executions in 2020. That’s compared to an all-time high of 184 executions the year before as documented by Amnesty International and Human Rights … Read more
The crime for which Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death is about as horrific as one can imagine. In December 2004, she strangled a pregnant dog breeder, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, having pretended to be interested in buying one of her puppies, and used a kitchen knife to cut her baby out of her belly, whom she … Read more
Yara Shahidi speaks out against executions in Iran and acknowledges the dangers for her family living there: ‘If you know me, you know I value life’ By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 08:15 BST, 16 July 2020 | Updated: 12:59 BST, 16 July 2020 Yara Shahidi is speaking out against scheduled executions of anti-government protestors … Read more
Billy Joe Wardlow, 45, was executed by a lethal injection Wednesday evening for fatally shooting an 82-year-old man nearly three decades ago A Texas inmate received lethal injection Wednesday evening for fatally shooting an 82-year-old man nearly three decades ago, ending a five-month delay of executions in the nation’s busiest death penalty state because of … Read more
Daniel Lewis Lee, 47-year-old avowed white supremacist, was scheduled to be put to death on Monday for the 1996 murder of a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl in Arkansas Four death-row inmates, including a white supremacist, have been scheduled for execution by the Justice Department, and will be the first prisoners to be … Read more
Hunt for Britain’s 2000-year-old gladiators: Archaeologists are to dig up ancient Kent amphitheatre in hopes of finding proof it was a venue for blood-soaked Roman contests… or public executions Roman amphitheatre is due to be excavated by English Heritage from March The buried arena was the landing site for the Claudian Invasion of AD 43 … Read more