PARIS: Iran executed at least 1,500 people last year, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group said on Thursday, in what it called an “unprecedented” hike in the use of capital punishment.“It is very alarming,” the group’s director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, said of the provisional toll.“It is unprecedented in the last 35 years. As long as Iran […]
Mark Allen Geralds uttered a cryptic statement as he faced death on Tuesday (Florida Department of Corrections) A Florida man convicted of the brutal killing of a young mother more than three decades ago was executed earlier this month, bringing an end to one of the state’s longest-running capital cases. Mark Allen Geralds, 58, was […]
In this undated image, Stephen Bryant appears in court. (The Item via AP) Stephen Bryant, 44, was executed by firing squad at a prison in Columbia on Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections said. He pleaded guilty to three murders committed during a 2004 crime spree in which he killed three people and scrawled […]
File photo: Kayle Barrington Bates and Janet Renee White (Picture credit: AP, X) Florida on Tuesday carried out its record 10th execution of the year, putting to death Kayle Barrington Bates, who was convicted of abducting and murdering insurance worker Janet Renee White in 1982.Bates, 67, received a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near […]
Michael Bernard Bell, a man who fatally shot a man and woman outside a Florida bar STARKE: A man who fatally shot a man and woman outside a Florida bar as part of an attempted revenge killing is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. Michael Bernard Bell, 54, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection […]
This photo shows the state’s death chamber in Columbia, SC, including the electric chair and a firing squad chair (Image: AP) A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina’s second firing squad execution was conscious and likely in extreme pain for as long as a minute after the bullets, meant to […]
