Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); February 1, 2024: At least one prisoner named Mehdi Azarioun who was on death row for murder, was executed in Urmia Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, at least one man was executed in Urmia Central (Darya) Prison on 31 January. His identity has been established as Mehdi Azarioun who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) Leggi Tutto
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); February 1, 2024: Zahra Nazarian, a woman on death row for murder, was executed in Sabzevar Prison.According to HRANA news agency, a woman was executed in Sabzevar Prison on 31 January. Her identity has been reported as 27-year-old Zahra Nazarian.She was arrested four
PIERRE — A bill that would have removed the death penalty as the state’s ultimate punishment failed to get out of a Senate committee Thursday morning by one vote.SB 109, sponsored by Sen. Reynold Nesiba, D-Sioux Falls, had a litany of supporters who spoke about the morality of the death penalty
KOFU, Japan (Kyodo) -- The death sentence has been finalized for a 21-year-old man convicted of murder and arson as a minor in 2021 after he withdrew an appeal, a Japanese court said Friday.The defense team for Yuki Endo filed the appeal on the deadline Thursday, but the defendant withdrew it
Rather than inventing new ways to implement capital punishment, we urge all States to put in place a moratorium on its use, as a step towards universal abolitionThe infliction of the death penalty is profoundly difficult to reconcile with human dignity, the fundamental right to life, and the
Three killers in two high-profile cases were executed on Wednesday after China's top court approved their death penalties.Former Peking University student Wu Xieyu, who killed his mother in 2015, had his execution carried out by Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court in Fujian province.Zhang Bo, a
More than a quarter of all inmates currently on Alabama's death row have chosen nitrogen gas as their execution method, and those decisions were made before the state used the gas for the first time to kill Kenneth Eugene Smith, state officials say.Smith, 58, was executed Thursday night at the
BOISE, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — Thomas Creech, who has been Idaho’s longest serving death row inmate was denied clemency after the state parole board denied his request at a hearing on Monday in Boise, for a reduced sentence to avoid the death penalty.  Creech has been housed in
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); January 28, 2024: Asef and Aref Eshaghizadeh, two undocumented Baluch brothers on death row for drug-related charges, were secretly executed in Birjand Central Prison.According to Haal Vsh, two undocumented Baluch men were executed in Birjand Central Prison on 28
On Thursday evening, the state of Alabama executed Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen gas. Now, there are dueling narratives about what happened. Alabama claims it went perfectly, proving that nitrogen is a humane, effective alternative to lethal injection (which it previously tried
The Advocate newspaper reports Governor Jeff Landry will look to restart executions in Louisiana. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says it’s not a surprise since Landry has made it known that he wants to deter crime.“I don’t think there’s any doubt that he’s going to try to push that and have it
ATMORE (AP) — Alabama’s first-ever use of nitrogen gas for an execution could gain traction among other states and change how the death penalty is carried out in the United States, much like lethal injection did more than 40 years ago, according to experts on capital punishment.Alabama Attorney
For a country that executes gay people, it offers a surprising procedure. But those going through it face unqualified doctors and humiliation.Death or surgery? It’s a capital offence to be gay in Iran. But gender-change surgery is legal. Now, 4000 Iranians are undergoing the life-changing
Iran's record-breaking year of executions continued into 2024 with at least 28 people known to have been executed in just 10 days during January as the regime's killing spree surges forward in the face of a crumbling autocracy.Statistics from the Iran Human Rights Organization reveal that since
The Supreme Court has rejected a 10th and likely final retrial request to review the 1961 murders of five women with poisoned wine in the central Japan city of Nabari.In a decision dated Monday, the top court rejected a special appeal for reopening the case involving Masaru Okunishi, who died at
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said Tuesday he is confident in the state’s current lethal injection protocols and has no plans to endorse a switch to nitrogen gas, even as several states are mulling following Alabama’s lead in using nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates.Stitt
Saudi Arabia has faced criticism for its high number of executions, with over 170 convicts meeting a similar fate in the previous yearSaudi Arabia announced the execution of four Ethiopian expatriates who were convicted of murdering a Sudanese man in the conservative kingdom. The
Saudi Arabia has carried out its first death penalty this year after executing a citizen convicted of terrorist acts in the country's Eastern Province.The kingdom's Ministry of Interior said it executed Aoun Al Abu Abdullah on Tuesday.Photo: Public beheading in Saudi Arabia. Note that the red
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); January 26, 2024: Hossein Ali Shakourian and Naser Mavadat who were sentenced to death for drug-related charges, were executed in Sabzevar Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Sabzevar Prison on 22 January. Their
The first-ever use of nitrogen gas by Alabama to kill Kenneth Smith shows why the U.S. must end these futile, costly, deeply flawed government killings, says Sister Helen Prejean.A few nights ago convicted murderer Kenneth Smith was suffocated to death by the state of Alabama. His killing with
Ohio's last execution was on July 18, 2018, when Robert Van Hook was put to death by lethal injection for killing a man he met in a Cincinnati bar in 1985.Ohio politicians may be poised to consider whether the state might break its unofficial moratorium on the death penalty by following Alabama
NB: The following piece was originally published on January 24, 2024. Mr. Smith was executed by nitrogen hypoxia on January 25, 2024. Masks made by the subsidiary of a Quebec-based company are being used for executions in the United States, justice advocacy groups say.Alabama
NB: The following piece was originally published on January 24, 2024. Mr. Smith was executed by nitrogen hypoxia on January 25, 2024. Masks made by the subsidiary of a Quebec-based company are being used for executions in the United States, justice advocacy groups say.Alabama plans to
Under China's draconian laws, as many as 46 crimes carry the death sentence. The number of people it executes each year is a closely guarded secret, but rights groups estimate it to be in the thousands Mobile death vans, firing squads, lethal injections: These are all methods used by
KOFU, Japan (Kyodo) -- The death sentence has been finalized for a 21-year-old man convicted of murder and arson as a minor in 2021 after he withdrew an appeal, a Japanese court said Friday.The defense team for Yuki Endo filed the appeal on the deadline Thursday, but the defendant withdrew it
The former director of the state’s prison system is concerned about a Republican-sponsored bill that would add nitrogen gas to the law requiring lethal injection to carry out executions in Ohio. And he also now has questions about the death penalty itself.Gary Mohr supervised 15 executions as
Landry, who supported gas, firing squads and hanging in the past, will ask the Legislature to expand execution methods.Gov. Jeff Landry will direct lawmakers to expand methods Louisiana can use to execute death row prisoners, he said Wednesday, describing death sentences as "contractual
A father in Chongqing who threw his two children out of a high-rise apartment window in 2020, along with his girlfriend who had encouraged him, were executed on Wednesday after China's top court recently approved their death sentence.The Supreme People's Court reviewed the case and held that
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost just couldn’t resist jumping onboard a new way to kill people – or the opportunity to be in front of television cameras.Yost, Ohio’s two-term Republican attorney general, on Tuesday announced his support for legislation to allow nitrogen hypoxia to be used in Ohio
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); January 26, 2024: Protester Mehdi Mousavian has begun a hunger strike in protest against his scheduled eye for an eye punishment.IHRNGO Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam previously said: "Blinding as a form of punishment is a medieval practice that the Islamic Republic
An Iranian lawmaker says the execution of four Kurdish prisoners, who were hanged in Iran on Monday is a lesson to anyone who wants to overthrow the regime.“These executions are a lesson for anyone who wants to stand against the will of the Iranian nation because the Iranian nation will punish
Countless cases lay bare the raw injustice of the death penalty in the United States. The case of Richard Glossip is certainly one of them. He’s been on Oklahoma’s death row since 1998, facing nine separate execution dates. He’s been given his final meal three times, and, in 2015, was saved from
I am in the grim business of studying botched executions, and lately, tragically, business has been brisk. Last Thursday’s effort by Alabama to introduce nitrogen hypoxia to America’s arsenal of execution technologies added yet another chapter to the story of executions gone awry.As the New York
Kenneth Smith was pronounced dead at 8:25 pm tonight after the State of Alabama executed him using nitrogen suffocation, an experimental method that had never previously been used in an execution.Witness reports indicate that, just as Kenny Smith feared, the State’s experiment with nitrogen