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US: Alabama executes man convicted of killing three in country's second nitrogen gas execution
World | September 27, 2024 11:02 ISTAlan Eugene Miller, 59, was executed via nitrogen gas for killing three men — Lee Holdbrooks, Christopher Scott Yancy and Terry Jarvis — in 1999. Miller reportedly shook and trembled on the gurney for about two minutes with his body at times pulling against the restraints.
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Afghanistan: Thousands witness Taliban carry out double execution in football stadium
World | February 23, 2024 16:10 ISTThe Taliban regularly carried out public executions, floggings and stonings when they were in power from 1996 to 2001. The UN on Thursday said it was strongly opposed to the death penalty, saying it was inconsistent with the fundamental right to life.
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Ecuador: 29-year-old councillor shot dead in broad daylight while shooting video
World | February 10, 2024 14:54 ISTEcuador has been rocked by several instances of violent attacks after President Daniel Noboa launched a virtual war against drug gangs. After the assassination of a presidential candidate, the country has seen kidnappings of several police officers and public executions.
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Iran executes four persons with links to Israel's Mossad on charges of sabotage
World | December 29, 2023 15:30 ISTIran and Israel, largely known as bitter foes, have accused each other of spying and waging a shadow war for several years. Earlier this month, Iran claimed to have executed a spy from Israel's Mossad agency on charges of involvement in releasing classified information.
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Israeli Mossad spy executed on charges of releasing classified information, claims Iran
World | December 16, 2023 14:44 ISTran and Israel, largely known as bitter foes, have accused each other of spying and waging a shadow war for several years. Israel sees Iran as its greatest threat and has repeatedly threatened to take military action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, which Tehran has denied seeking.
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Kim Jong Un executes general by throwing him into 'piranha-filled' fish tank: Report
World | October 16, 2023 22:44 ISTA giant fish tank has been built in Kim Jong Un's residence in Ryongsong with Brazil-imported piranhas. According to the report, the North Korean leader took inspiration from a 1977 James Bond film.
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US state seeks nation's first execution by making prisoner breathe only nitrogen
World | August 26, 2023 20:35 ISTAlabama authorized nitrogen hypoxia in 2018 amid a shortage of drugs used to carry out lethal injections, but the state has not attempted to use it until now to carry out a death sentence.
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'Grossly unfair trial': Saudi Arabia executes two Bahrainis on terrorism charges
World | May 30, 2023 9:25 ISTNine people convicted of terrorism have been executed in Saudi Arabia since May 2, all in the eastern region, where the Shiite minority is concentrated.
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Afghanistan: Taliban carry out first public execution since hastily takeover in August 2021
World | December 08, 2022 12:32 ISTPublic execution in Afghanistan: The executed man, identified as Tajmir from Herat province, was convicted of killing another man five years ago and stealing his motorcycle and mobile phone.
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Saudi Arabia puts 81 to death in its largest mass execution
World | March 12, 2022 21:52 ISTThe executions carried out surpassed even the toll of a January 1980 mass execution for the 63 militants convicted of seizing the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979, the worst-ever militant attack to target the kingdom and Islam's holiest site.
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Convicts' lawyer AP Singh questions Nirbhaya's character
News | March 20, 2020 10:12 ISTAfter losing the case, Nirbhaya convicts' lawyer, AP Singh made a controversial statement over Nirbhaya's charatcter.
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Nirbhaya case: In a first, four convicts hanged together in India
India | March 20, 2020 5:46 ISTThis will be for the first time when four convicts will be hanged together in India. The four men -- Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma, and Akshay Kumar Singh -- are set to be hanged at 5.30 am in Delhi's Tihar jail on Friday.
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Nirbhaya case: Tihar asks hangman to report 3 days ahead of execution
India | March 15, 2020 18:18 ISTWith just five days left for the execution of death sentence in the sensational 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, the Tihar Jail authorities on Sunday said they have asked the hangman to report three days ahead of the scheduled hanging.
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Nirbhaya's rapists not to be hanged on January 22. Here's why
India | January 16, 2020 16:22 ISTNirbhaya's rapists would not be hanged on January 22 as mercy petitions continue to delay the process.
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No rapist hanged after 2005, says Anna Hazare
India | December 09, 2019 20:33 ISTAnna Hazare claimed, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Since Aug. 14, 2005, not a single death penalty has been executed for a rapist.
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North Korean public execution sites identified by human rights group
World | June 11, 2019 15:55 ISTThe Seoul-based Transitional Justice Working Group said its research was based on interviews with 610 North Korean defectors conducted over four years who helped locate the sites with satellite imagery.
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While Jadhav’s life awaits ICJ decision, Pakistan hangs 8 ‘hardcore terrorists’ in 2 days
World | May 18, 2017 14:18 ISTWhile the life of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav hinges on ICJ’s decision today, Islamabad expeditiously continues its process of executing “hardcore terrorists” tried by its military courts – eight hanged over a period of two days
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ISIS ‘celebrates Eid’ by hanging ‘US spies’ from meat hooks and ‘butchering them like sheep’
World | September 14, 2016 13:15 ISTISIS released a new execution video in which they hung prisoners upside down from meat hooks and ‘butchered them like sheep’.
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ISIS executed over 4,000 in Syria in last two years: Report
World | April 30, 2016 16:54 ISTLondon: The Islamic State militant group has executed over 4,000 people within two years, a UK-based Syrian Observatory for HumanRights (SOHR) said, calling on the UN to stop the crimes and violations committed against the
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Iran executes all adult men in one village for drug offences
World | February 28, 2016 13:38 ISTTehran: Iran has executed entire adult male population of a village in southern Iran for drug offenses, according to country's vice-president for women and family affairs, Shahindokht Molaverdi. Molaverdi made the shocking revealation during an interview
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