The number of executions in Saudi Arabia fell dramatically last year after the kingdom stopped carrying out the death penalty 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 … 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