Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saudi authorities put two people to death on Monday to reach 17 executions in three days, state media said, as the conservative ...

This week, a man convicted of murdering two people in Okaloosa County nearly 40 years ago is scheduled to become the 19th person put to death in Florida this year, shattering the state's previous ...

More than 800 people have been executed in Iran since the start of the year, the UN said Friday, decrying "a systematic pattern of using the death penalty as a tool of state intimidation". The United ...

The state of Florida executed 64-year-old Victor Tony Jones on Tuesday at 6:13 p.m. by lethal injection for the 1990 murder of a married couple he worked for. His last words were, “No, sir,” according ...

Beijing has continued to clamp down on Myanmar-based telecom scams with another set of executions. The fraud operations reportedly involve cryptocurrency investments and also have links to drug ...

Correction: This story previously misidentified John Chick Sr. as a member of a different church. The story has since been updated to reflect the correct church. Florida executed Samuel Smithers, 72, ...

The UN rights office said there had been a 'major increase in executions' by Tehran — Delphine TOUITOU At least 841 people have been executed in Iran since the start of the year, the UN said Friday, ...

GENEVA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - North Korea has executed people for distributing foreign media, including television shows like popular South Korean dramas, as part of an intensifying crackdown on ...

(Beirut) – Saudi authorities have been carrying out an unprecedented surge in executions in 2025 without apparent due process, Human Rights Watch and the Middle East Democracy Center said today. The ...