Afghanistan’s Taliban made a 13-year-old carry out a public execution in front of thousands of onlookers, shooting a man who had killed more than a dozen members of the boy’s family. An estimated ...

The victims' relatives had been offered the option of forgiveness and reconciliation that would have spared the man's life, but instead requested the death penalty. The incident brings to 12 the ...

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 ...

She was once cast as a secular heroine, the daughter of a revolutionary leader, whose brutal assassination in the 1970s defined her political ascent. But Sheikh Hasina’s rise to the top of ...

An Alabama inmate convicted of killing a man over a drug debt was set to be executed Thursday evening in the state’s latest death sentence carried out with nitrogen gas. Anthony Boyd, 54, was ...

Gunmen shoot detainees as Hamas moves to reassert control after Israel’s pullout Graphic videos circulating on social media show masked Hamas gunmen executing eight blindfolded men in Gaza City’s Al ...

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 ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row. Christa Pike received the death sentence at age 18 for the 1995 torture ...

Tennessee has set an execution date for Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on the state’s death row. On Tuesday, the state Supreme Court ordered that Pike is to be executed on September 30, 2026. If ...