Execution
Iran disputes claim that Trump stopped over 800 executions, say none were scheduled - report
"I stopped 837 hangings on Thursday," Trump told the press on Friday morning. "And I said, 'if you hang those people, you're gonna be hit harder than you've ever been hit.'"
Executions in Iran soared in 2025 as regime used killings as 'tool of intimidation,' UN says
Iran sends mixed signals on executions as judiciary warns ‘severest punishment’ for ‘mohareb’
Erfan Soltani, Iranian protester sentenced to death, confirmed alive by watchdog
Alabama completes first execution using nitrogen gas asphyxiation
Smith, convicted of a 1988 murder-for-hire, was a rare prisoner who had already survived one execution attempt.
'He took to the streets for you!': Iranian protester executed by regime
Qobadlou was sentenced to death in late 2022, in the middle of the protests, on charges of killing a police officer and of "corruption on earth."
UN experts sound alarm over planned first US execution by nitrogen gas
Kenneth Smith, convicted of murder, is scheduled to be executed in the state of Alabama on January 25 using nitrogen hypoxia.
Iran says it executes four 'saboteurs' linked to Israel's Mossad
IRNA state news said their mission entailed kidnappings, threatening and setting fire to vehicles and homes of unnamed targets and stealing their mobile phones.
Iran claims to execute agent of Israel's Mossad intelligence service
The execution took place in a Zahedan jail in in Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province.
Hamas claims 50 Israeli hostages killed in Gaza, no proof given
Hamas has a history of reporting that hostages were killed in airstrikes after they had been executed by the terrorist group.
Texas Jew on death row granted stay of execution
Jedidiah Murphy was sentenced to death for the fatal 2000 shooting of 80-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham in Dallas County during a carjacking.
Saudi Arabia executes two military personnel for treason - SPA
The two officers were arrested in 2017 and sentenced to death on charges of treason and not protecting the national interest and military honor.
The execution that marked the end of Iraqi Jewry - opinion
Iraq’s most powerful and richest Jew, who had hosted the regent in his home and had no links to Israel or Zionism, could be indicted in a show trial and hanged, what future would there be for them?
Iran says US should explain links to prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd
US envoy for Iran, Abram Paley, met on Friday with the family of Sharmahd, who was convicted of heading a pro-monarchist group accused of a deadly bombing in 2008.
