TAIPEI, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Taiwan carried out its first execution in five years late on Thursday, upsetting both rights groups and the European Union which called on the government to maintain its ...

[1] The most notorious death execution in BC was about 399 BC when the Greek philosopher Socrates was required to drink poison for heresy and corruption of youth.[2] Mosaic Law codified many ...

Dr Mbae was the Head of the Government Delivery Services, a position he was appointed to on June 7, 2024 to help track and support the execution of President Ruto's Bottom-Up Economic Transformation ...

I just don’t know. I don’t know. I have no explanation." The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals issued an order Tuesday setting the execution date. The state appeals court in 2011 upheld Grissom's ...

Alabama is set to execute its first inmate of 2025 in February, following a record-setting year of executions. Gov. Kay Ivey’s office on Tuesday announced that Demetrius Frazier will be executed ...

Syria’s interim justice minister has come under scrutiny following the resurfacing of old videos reportedly showing him reading execution sentences in Idlib. The videos, verified by the fact ...

Footage has appeared online purportedly showing the justice minister in the new Syrian government, Shadi Al-Waisi, overseeing the execution of two women in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province in 2015.

An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state's highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for, pushing as he had in the past to have ...

(Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry via AP, File) PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his ...

Read more. Story idea? [email protected]. A date has been set for the execution of South Carolina death row inmate Marion Bowman Jr. His execution is set for Jan. 31 following a notice issued ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ricky Bell, warden at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, gives a tour of the prison’s execution ...