Thursday, October 09, 2014 By KEVIN LESSMILLER NASHVILLE (CN) – Prisoners put to death by the state have a right to know who is carrying out the execution, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled. A group of death row inmates… Read More ›
Capital punishment
India urged not to hang suspected bombing mastermind
Source: Reuters – Thu, 22 Aug 2013 03:52 PM Author: Reuters GENEVA, Aug 22 (Reuters) – India must not go ahead with the imminent execution of a professor convicted of charges related to bombing the All Indian Youth Congress… Read More ›
Stoning to death is a fair punishment – expert
© Flickr.com/potaufeu/cc-by Deaths by firing squad, lethal injection, or even the electric chair are all acceptable forms of the capital punishment in the West. Though, in some parts of the world death by stoning is legally upheld, but scolded upon… Read More ›
Saudi Arabia may stop public beheadings… due to a shortage of swordsmen
The Gulf kingdom beheaded 69 people in 2012, says Human Rights Watch Rape, murder, armed robbery and drug trafficking all punishable by death By Sarah Johnson PUBLISHED: 04:13 EST, 11 March 2013 | UPDATED: 06:24 EST, 11 March 2013 … Read More ›
Abdullah OKs man’s crucifixion for robbery: ” to be crucified for three days”
Two leading rights groups appealed to Saudi King Abdullah to halt Tuesday’s crucifixion and firing-squad executions of seven young Saudis for armed robbery. At least two of the defendants were child offenders when they allegedly robbed jewelry stores… Read More ›
Egyptian high court on Wednesday sentenced to death US pastor Terry Jones for burning copies of the Koran
Egypt: Court sentences Terry Jones to death over burnt Koran Death penalty also for 6 Copts in U.S. over anti-Mohammed film 28 November, 14:01 (ANSAmed) – Cairo, November 28 – An Egyptian high court on Wednesday sentenced to death US… Read More ›
Pakistan arrests 11 year old, mentally disabled Christian girl for alleged Qur’an desecration
By Jon Boone, The Guardian Sunday, August 19, 2012 20:06 EDT An 11-year-old Christian Pakistani girl said to suffer from a mental disorder could face the death penalty under the country’s notorious blasphemy laws, after she was accused by her… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 