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Palestinian protesters carried out a mock execution of US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, culminating in effigies of the pair being burned. The spectacle comes amid worsening US-Palestinian relations. The staged hanging took place at Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem in the West Bank to show the community’s “rejection” of US budget […]
Published time: 30 Sep, 2017 20:40 The former chairman of the state-run PetroVietnam has been handed a death sentence after being found guilty of embezzlement, intentionally breaking state rules on economic management and abusing his position and power. Nguyen Xuan Son, who was arrested in 2015 by the previous administration of former Prime Minister Nguyen […]
An execution site with 17 apparent victims of extrajudicial killings was found near the Old City of West Mosul, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The find is among a flood of evidence of atrocities being committed by Iraqi troops, the rights group pointed out. The site was studied by “international observers, whose evidence has […]
Reuters/Stephen Lam A Texas man on death row for almost 25 years will now face parole review instead of an execution date. The Texas Attorney General’s office tossed a death sentence Wednesday for a long-serving occupant of Texas’ death row in light of a March U.S. Supreme Court ruling on intellectual disability and capital punishment. It was the second […]
Canadian game accelerator and investor Execution Labs is shutting down. Jason Della Rocca, cofounder of the Montreal-based company, announced on Facebook that the company has deployed all of its capital and that it will not be making new investments. “Well, that’s been an intense and inspiring four and a half years!,” Della Rocca wrote. “Execution […]
Published time: 9 May, 2017 15:04 The Russian Ministry of Defense has denied the authenticity of a video purporting to show the execution of a Russian intelligence officer in Syria that was released by the propaganda wing of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). Read more The terrorist group released the 12-minute-long video through its media […]
Arkansas Department of Corrections/Handout via REUTERS VARNER, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge temporarily blocked Arkansas from executing a second inmate Monday night after attorneys questioned whether the first execution had gone properly. Jack Jones received a lethal injection earlier Monday evening that lasted 14 minutes. The state was set to execute Marcel Williams about […]
Arkansas Department of Corrections/Handout via REUTERS VARNER, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has executed an inmate for the first time in nearly a dozen years as part of its plan to execute several inmates before a drug expires April 30, despite court rulings that have already spared three men. Ledell Lee’s execution was the first in the […]
Reuters/Stephen Lam This article was published in collaboration with Vice. Kenneth Williams is one of eight men scheduled to be executed in Arkansas over 11 days this month. The unusually busy schedule has set off last-minute appeals, as well as lawsuits over the state’s use of the sedative midazolam. Not many people have seen a real death warrant […]
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