Mar 8, 2025 · A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

Apr 10, 2025 · South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and firing three bullets into his heart.

Nov 28, 2023 · Among the execution methods — including hanging, a firing squad and the electric chair — used to punish some of American history’s most monstrous crimes, lethal injection has become …

Jan 5, 2025 · More than 170 inmates on death row were flown from Congo’s capital to a high-security prison in the north where they will be executed, Congolese authorities said.

Nov 19, 2024 · Anti-death penalty activists protest the execution of Lisa Montgomery in January 2021 at the US Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Dec 30, 2006 · There had been speculation that Hussein would be executed before Eid Al-Adha -- a holiday period that means Feast of the Sacrifice, celebrated by Muslims around the world at the …

Jun 9, 2014 · Yusuf later dies in police custody. Police say he is shot during an attempted escape, but Boko Haram claims it is an extrajudicial execution.

Dec 24, 2024 · She was executed in January 2021, after a request for then-President Trump to read her clemency petition was unsuccessful.

Sep 24, 2024 · The Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Mike Parson have declined to halt Tuesday’s execution of a death row inmate prosecutors say may be innocent, leaving his fate in the hands of …

Oct 28, 2024 · Jamshid Sharmahd, 69, was executed Monday morning for “planning and orchestrating a series of terrorist acts,” state-run IRNA and Press TV reported.