Alabama is poised to carry out the first known execution using nitrogen gas Thursday to put Kenneth Smith to death for his role in a 1988 murder for hire. Smith, who survived the state’s initial attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2022, is tentatively set to die Thursday evening as the state endeavors to use…
Three men and one woman hanged on charges of ‘moharebeh’ – or waging war against God Iran has announced it has hanged four people it claims were engaged in “sabotage” on behalf of Israel. They were executed in Iran’s north-west province of West Azerbaijan, the judiciary’s Mizan website reported. The three men and one woman…
Iranian authorities have executed at least 150 people this year alone, according to human rights organizations. Iran on Monday executed two men convicted of blasphemy, the country’s judiciary announced, carrying out a rare death sentence for such a crime. The judiciary’s Mizan news agency said in a report that Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare…