Iran ‘obsessively’ carrying out executions, say rights activists
Iran is “obsessively” executing death row inmates despite a decline in public support for capital punishment, rights activists said ...
Tag: Executions
Opinion | Stop the Executions, President Biden
The death penalty has not been shown to deter crime, despite the repeated claim to the contrary by its ...
Suspect in Iran 1988 mass executions to be tried in Sweden in June
An Iranian who was arrested in Sweden in 2019 on suspicion of carrying out crimes against humanity in the ...
Federal executions likely a Covid superspreader
As the Trump administration was nearing the end of an unprecedented string of executions, 70% of death row inmates ...
Biden will halt federal executions, other actions on first day in office
Biden will also rescind the Keystone XL pipeline permit, issue a proclamation terminating the border wall emergency and send ...
Senators ask Justice Department watchdog to investigate federal executions under Trump
After a second federal inmate scheduled to be executed next month recently tested positive for the coronavirus, several senators ...
Virus Hits Federal Death Row, Prompting Calls for Delays in Executions
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic is sweeping through death row at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., with ...
Number of Executions in U.S. Falls Despite Push by Trump Administration
WASHINGTON — In part because of the effects of the pandemic on the criminal justice system, the number of executions ...