Keywords: Death Penalty
Iranian authorities have announced the execution of a man convicted of spying for Israel, in a case that highlights growing tensions between the two longtime adversaries. The announcement was made by media affiliated with Iran’s judiciary, which said the sentence had been carried out following......
Saudi Arabia has surpassed its annual record for the use of capital punishment, with 340 executions carried out since the beginning of the year. The figure exceeds the previous high of 338 executions recorded in 2024, according to a count based on official announcements. The trend highlights a continued......
Iranian authorities announced on Sunday the execution of Mohammad Reza Ghaffari, a businessman convicted of a large-scale fraud affecting tens of thousands of people. Ghaffari, owner of the company Rezaayat Khodro Taravat Novin, was sentenced after the Iranian Supreme Court confirmed in August his conviction......
The prosecution on Thursday demanded the death penalty for former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 78, who is being tried in absentia by a court in Dhaka. She is accused of ordering the repression of riots that led to her ousting in 2024. “We demand the maximum penalty. For a single murder,......
A Tunisian man has been sentenced to death for posting Facebook messages deemed offensive to President Kais Saied, his lawyer and a human rights group confirmed on Friday, October 3. The verdict was delivered on Wednesday by a court in Nabeul, in northern Tunisia. According to defense lawyer Oussama......
President Donald Trump has issued a memorandum mandating the enforcement of the federal death penalty in Washington, D.C., despite the city abolishing capital punishment over two decades ago. The directive instructs Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro......
The Utah Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked the execution of Ralph Leroy Menzies, a 67-year-old man convicted of killing Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, after his attorneys argued that he suffers from severe dementia. Menzies had been scheduled to face a firing squad on September 5, a method he chose......
Iran has carried out at least 841 executions since the beginning of 2025, marking a sharp increase compared to previous years, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reported on Friday. In July alone, 100 people were executed, more than double the number recorded in the same month last......
Florida is set to carry out its 29th execution of the year on Tuesday, as 67-year-old Kayle Bates is scheduled to die by lethal injection. Bates has spent nearly two-thirds of his life on death row following his 1983 conviction for the murder of 24-year-old Janet Renee White. White was kidnapped from......
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