MAZATLAN, Mexico (Reuters) – Relatives of 17 suspected gang members killed late last week by police in northwest Mexico fear a skewed death toll points to what has become a grimly regular complaint in recent years — summary executions by security forces. The 17 men, who authorities said were armed with 24 guns, were killed […]
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Arkansas Plans To Carry Out Two More Executions Monday Night
View this image › This combination of undated file photos provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmates Jack Jones, left, and Marcel Williams. Arkansas Department of Correction via AP WASHINGTON — If no court steps in, Arkansas is poised to become the first state in more than 15 years to execute two […]
US Supreme Court scuttles Arkansas efforts to conduct first executions in nearly 12 years
AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel VARNER, Ark. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court spared the life of an Arkansas inmate minutes before his death warrant was set to expire Monday, scuttling efforts to resume the death penalty after nearly 12 years in the state with a plan to carry out four double executions before its supply […]
Arkansas executions continue legal limbo after state supreme court & federal appeals rulings
Published time: 17 Apr, 2017 22:39Edited time: 17 Apr, 2017 22:48 The start of a series of executions in Arkansas has been disrupted. The state supreme court kept two death row inmates alive Monday, but a federal appeals court overturned a lower court’s halt on eight lethal injections planned for the next 10 days. Read […]
US senator wants to probe RT as a ‘foreign agent’… What’s next, public executions?
A bill introduced by US senator Jeanne Shaheen that seeks to grant the Justice Department powers to investigate RT’s “funding sources and foreign connections” is yet another example of McCarthyism-style persecution of dissenting voices, RT’s editor-in-chief has said. “At such pace they’ll soon start shooting our journalists at the squares. Greetings to Senator McCarthy from […]
Arizona lets death row inmates bring their own lethal injection drugs to executions
“BYO” is often seen on invitations asking people to bring booze, but it’s unusual for the practice to be applied to the death row arena. Arizona has done just that, however, requesting inmates up for execution to bring their own lethal injection drugs. There is a dearth of lethal injection drugs in the United States […]
Mississippi may bring back firing-squad executions
YouTube/British Pathé Concerned by recent court challenges and practical constraints that make execution by lethal injection increasingly precarious, Mississippi is taking preemptive action. The state legislature introduced House Bill 638, which proposes adding firing squad, electrocution, and gas chamber to the list of approved execution methods in Mississippi. Lethal injection is currently the state’s only […]
ISIS Child Jihadist Executions: Adult Militants Stand By While The Children They Train Commit Cold-Blooded Murder
An ISIS child jihadist recently executed a grown man in a carnival ball pit, and video footage of the incident, recorded by ISIS militants, has surfaced, according to PJ Media. It’s been established that the ISIS child jihadist execution video, which is 18 minutes long, was originally recorded in Khayr, Syria, which ISIS currently has […]