Khost (Afghanistan) (AFP) – A man convicted of murder was publicly executed at a stadium in eastern Afghanistan, witnesses told AFP on Tuesday, a punishment a UN rights monitor called "inhumane". The ...

Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman for the first time in more than two centuries, after the state’s Supreme Court set the execution date for Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s ...

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

Texas and Alabama are poised to execute death row inmates within minutes of each other on the same day this week. On Thursday, Sept. 25, Alabama is set to execute Geoffrey West, 50, by the relatively ...

The Pentagon’s current management of operations is leading it toward strategic insolvency and increasing risks to warfighters in the event of great-power war. A slow but steady accumulation of mission ...

Taliban authorities in eastern Afghanistan publicly executed an alleged murderer Wednesday, citing the Islamic concept of retributive justice or qisas. The early morning punishment, which promptly ...

What happens to a man on death row when the lead detective in his case says he got it wrong, that he’s convinced of the inmate's innocence, and has been begging for the courts, for the governor – ...

A rumor circulating online in early October 2024 claimed that an audio clip featured a U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official saying, "We plan to execute between 70,000 and 80,000," ...

During the heated debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, several notable—and frankly bizarre—claims were made. Notably, Trump alleged that Democratic states are ...

(Nairobi) – The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and affiliated fighters have summarily executed, tortured, and ill-treated people in their custody, and mutilated dead ...