The Court of Appeal in Abuja has ordered a stay of execution and proceedings in the contempt suit filed at the Kogi State High Court by former Governor Yahaya Bello against the chair of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Olu Olukoyede. A three-member panel of the appellate court, led by Joseph Oyewole, gave … Read more
The Taliban has carried out three public executions in just five days with impunity. The government has again started amputating, lashing, and executing people publicly for various crimes. In a recent incident reported from the city of Shibirghan, the Taliban on February 26 held a public execution for a man convicted of murder. The executed … Read more
China has executed a couple guilty of throwing two toddlers out of a high-rise apartment window, according to local media reports. Zhang Bo, the father of the toddlers, and Ye Chengchen, his girlfriend, were sentenced to death by the Supreme Court for the premeditated murder of Zhang’s 2-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son. The two children … Read more
Iran carried out the death sentences of four people on Monday that it says were linked to an Israeli intelligence operation after the Supreme Court rejected their appeal, Iranian state media reported. The defendants were accused of illegally entering Iranian territory from Iraq’s Kurdistan region to carry out a bombing operation in an Isfahan-based … Read more
Alabama successfully executed a man who spent decades on death row using a new method called nitrogen hypoxia. DW delves into the method’s scientific and ethical implications.Kenneth Smith, 58, was convicted for his role in a murder in 1988 and sentenced to death.In 2022, Smith survived an attempted execution by lethal injection when his executioners … Read more
Mohammad Qobadlou, who was arrested after taking part in the Woman, Life, Freedom protests that swept Iran after the killing of Mahsa Amini in 2022, is in imminent risk of being executed by the regime, according to Iranian human rights agencies and Qobadlou’s lawyer. Qobadlou was sentenced to death in late 2022, in the … Read more
Iran executed on Friday four people, including a woman, whom it accused of being “saboteurs” with links to Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, the Mizan news agency affiliated to the judiciary said. The executions took to five the number of people put to death this month in a decades-long shadow war that has seen Iran … Read more
