The Taliban have carried out a huge public execution in a stadium packed with 80,000 people - forcing a 13-year-old to put his family's killer to death. Afghanistan’s ruling authorities carried out a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

A bill to bring back the death penalty in North Carolina — and to make it harder for people with histories of criminal behavior and mental illness to go back onto the street after being arrested — ...

Evidence suggests David Pittman has lifelong intellectual disabilities, which lawyers say should bar him from the death penalty. David Pittman appears in a jail booking photo taken after his 1990 ...

Builder.ai went from a value of $1.5 billion to zero in a few months, amid questions over the sales of an A.I. product. Its downfall hints at a broader downturn. By David Streitfeld David Streitfeld ...