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Saudi Arabia executes three Indians among record 101 foreigners in 2024

This year's executions include 21 from Pakistan, 20 from Yemen, and 14 from Syria, while three each from Sudan, India and Afghanistan, and one each from Sri Lanka, Eritrea and the Philippines

Saudi Arabia executes three Indians among record 101 foreigners in 2024
Updated On : 18 Nov 2024 | 2:15 PM IST

29 executions in two days in Iran, UN rights office expresses concerns

The UN human rights office is expressing concerns about reports that Iran has executed 29 people over two days this week, with the rights chief decrying an alarmingly high number" of executions in such a short period of time. The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said Friday it has verified 38 people were executed in July, bringing the total number of executions to at least 345 this year mostly for drug offenses or murder including 15 women. Imposing the death penalty for offenses not involving intentional killing is incompatible with international human rights norms and standards, rights office spokeswoman Liz Throssell told a U.N. briefing Friday. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Trk is extremely concerned about reports that, in the space of two days this week, Iranian authorities reportedly executed at least 29 people across the country, she said. This represents an alarmingly high number of executions in such a short period of time. Throssell

29 executions in two days in Iran, UN rights office expresses concerns
Updated On : 09 Aug 2024 | 10:07 PM IST

Executions worldwide jumped last year to highest number since 2015: Amnesty

The number of executions recorded worldwide last year jumped to the highest level since 2015, with a sharp rise in Iran and across the Middle East, Amnesty International said in a report released on Wednesday. The human rights group said it recorded a total of 1,153 executions in 2023, a 30 per cent increase from 2022. Amnesty said the figure does not include thousands of death sentences believed to have been carried out in China, where data is not available due to state secrecy. The group said the spike in recorded executions was primarily driven by Iran, where authorities executed at least 853 people last year, compared to 576 in 2022. Those executed included 24 women and five people who were children at the time the crimes were committed, Amnesty said, adding that the practice disproportionately affected Iran's Baluch minority. "The Iranian authorities showed complete disregard for human life and ramped up executions for drug-related offences, further highlighting the ...

Executions worldwide jumped last year to highest number since 2015: Amnesty
Updated On : 29 May 2024 | 8:37 AM IST

Iran executes 4 convicted of planning sabotage, alleged links with Mossad

Iran executed on Monday four men convicted of planning sabotage and alleged links with Israel's Mossad secret service, state media reported. The official IRNA news agency said the men were convicted of planning to target a factory in 2022 belonging to Iran's defense ministry and involved in missile and defense equipment in the central city of Isfahan. The operation was allegedly engineered by Mossad and the four were trained by the Israeli agency in an African country before entering Iran, it said. The four were identified as Iranian nationals: Mohammad Faramarzi, Mohsen Mazloum, Vafa Azarbar and Pejman Fatehi. The execution was carried out after the country's Supreme Court upheld their death sentences, handed down by another court in September. The report did not say how the death sentences were carried out, but in Iran it's usually by hanging. In 2022, Iran said its intelligence agents had dismantled a group linked to Mossad that had allegedly planned terror operations inside Ira

Iran executes 4 convicted of planning sabotage, alleged links with Mossad
Updated On : 29 Jan 2024 | 1:52 PM IST

Executions in Iran up 30%, 419 killed in first 7 months of 2023: UN report

Iran is carrying out executions "at an alarming rate," putting to death at least 419 people in the first seven months of the year, the United Nations chief said in a new report. That's a 30 per cent increase from the same period in 2022. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in the report to the U.N. General Assembly on the human rights situation in Iran that seven men were executed in relation to or for participating in nationwide protests, sparked by the September 2022 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was picked up by the morality police for her allegedly loose headscarf in violation of Iran's Islamic dress code. In all seven cases, information received by the U.N. human rights office consistently indicated that the judicial proceedings did not fulfil the requirements for due process and a fair trial under international human rights law, Guterres said. Access to adequate and timely legal representation was frequently denied, with reports of coerced confessions, which may hav

Executions in Iran up 30%, 419 killed in first 7 months of 2023: UN report
Updated On : 02 Nov 2023 | 12:19 PM IST

Alabama wants to execute prisoner by making him breathe only nitrogen

Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen. The Alabama attorney general's office on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for death row inmate Kenneth Smith. Alabama plans to put him to death by nitrogen hypoxia, an execution method that is authorized in three states but has never been used. Nitrogen hypoxia is caused by forcing the inmate to breathe only nitrogen, depriving them of oxygen and causing them to pass out and die, according to the theory. Nitrogen makes up 78% of the air inhaled by humans and is harmless when inhaled with oxygen. Critics have likened the untested method to human experimentation. Alabama authorized nitrogen hypoxia in 2018 but the state has not attempted to use it until now to carry out a death sentence. Oklahoma and Mississippi have also authorized nitrogen hypoxia. Alabama has been working for several years to develop the execution method, but has disclosed little ab

Alabama wants to execute prisoner by making him breathe only nitrogen
Updated On : 26 Aug 2023 | 9:59 AM IST

AG recommends setting panel to review if execution by hanging proportionate

Attorney General R Venkataramani has written to the Centre on setting up a committee of experts to examine the prevalent mode of execution of death row convicts by hanging in the country, the Supreme Court was apprised on Tuesday. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra was told by senior advocate Sonia Mathur, appearing for the Centre, that a letter has been written by the attorney general for India to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on setting up of the panel and seeking its suggestions to be submitted in the court on the issue. Mathur also said that the topmost law officer was unavailable and travelling and hence the hearing may be deferred. List it on a Friday after two weeks, the CJI said. Earlier, the top court was apprised by the Centre that it was considering setting up a committee of experts to examine the prevalent mode of execution of death row convicts by hanging. The attorney general had said there were processes

AG recommends setting panel to review if execution by hanging proportionate
Updated On : 25 Jul 2023 | 12:25 PM IST

As Singapore hangs man, these are the nations with the harshest drug laws

Singapore has executed a man accused of coordinating a cannabis delivery despite clemency petitions and protests. Here is a list of nations with the harshest drug laws

As Singapore hangs man, these are the nations with the harshest drug laws
Updated On : 27 Apr 2023 | 2:22 PM IST

Iran carries out execution of 2 more men detained amid nationwide protests

Iran said it executed two men Saturday convicted of allegedly killing a paramilitary volunteer during a demonstration, the latest executions aimed at halting the nationwide protests now challenging the country's theocracy. Iran's judiciary identified those executed as Mohammad Karami and Mohammad Hosseini, making it four men known to have been executed since the demonstrations began in September over the death of Mahsa Amini. The judiciary's Mizan news agency said the men had been convicted of killing Ruhollah Ajamian, a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's volunteer Basij Force, in the city of Karaj outside of Tehran on Nov. 3. The Basij have deployed in major cities, attacking and detaining protesters, who in many cases have fought back. It wasn't immediately clear which court heard the two men's cases. However, Iran's internationally criticized closed-door Revolutionary Courts have handed down two of the death sentences. Activists say at least 16 people have been sentence

Iran carries out execution of 2 more men detained amid nationwide protests
Updated On : 07 Jan 2023 | 3:10 PM IST

Iran carries out first execution over anti-hijab protests, says report

The execution comes as other detainees also face possible death penalty for their involvement in the protests

Iran carries out first execution over anti-hijab protests, says report
Updated On : 09 Dec 2022 | 12:55 AM IST

Myanmar government to carry out its first executions in decades: Report

Government spokesperson Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun was cited as saying the decision to carry out the hangings was confirmed after legal appeals by the four were rejected.

Myanmar government to carry out its first executions in decades: Report
Updated On : 03 Jun 2022 | 11:00 PM IST

Dramatic drop in Saudi Arabia executions after laws changed in 2020

Saudi Arabia was for years one of the world's most prolific executioners

Dramatic drop in Saudi Arabia executions after laws changed in 2020
Updated On : 18 Jan 2021 | 1:54 PM IST

US government executes first woman on death row in nearly 70 years

The US Supreme Court, with its conservative majority, cleared the way for her execution after overturning a stay by the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals

US government executes first woman on death row in nearly 70 years
Updated On : 14 Jan 2021 | 2:08 AM IST

United States carries out rare execution during presidential transition

Four more federal executions, including one Friday, are planned in the weeks before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration

United States carries out rare execution during presidential transition
Updated On : 11 Dec 2020 | 6:08 PM IST

Satwant Singh to Nirbhaya case: History of executions in Independent India

Sixteen convicts have been executed in the country in the past three decades, including Yakub Memon, Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab.

Satwant Singh to Nirbhaya case: History of executions in Independent India
Updated On : 20 Mar 2020 | 8:55 AM IST

Nirbhaya case: Convicts to hang at 5:30 am as SC rejects last-minute plea

The plea claimed that there is further new evidence which shows that the state has concealed certain facts in the case from the court

Nirbhaya case: Convicts to hang at 5:30 am as SC rejects last-minute plea
Updated On : 20 Mar 2020 | 5:18 AM IST

HC rejects Nirbhaya rape convicts' last-minute petition against hanging

The bench said pendency of proceedings, initiated by the convicts or involving them at various fora is untenable in law as a ground for staying execution

HC rejects Nirbhaya rape convicts' last-minute petition against hanging
Updated On : 20 Mar 2020 | 1:34 AM IST

Death penalty up by 53% in 2018, but most rape cases stuck at trial: Data

India has carried out four executions since 2004, the last having been in 2015

Death penalty up by 53% in 2018, but most rape cases stuck at trial: Data
Updated On : 16 Feb 2020 | 10:09 PM IST

US to resume capital punishment after a gap of nearly two decades

The five inmates who will be executed soon at a federal facility in Indiana included Daniel Lewis Lee, a member of a white supremacist group, who murdered a family of three, including an eight-yr-old

US to resume capital punishment after a gap of nearly two decades
Updated On : 26 Jul 2019 | 11:38 PM IST

Pak: Former Punjab governor Taseer's killer Mumtaz Qadri executed

Qadri said he killed Taseer over the politician's vocal and vehement opposition to blasphemy laws of the country

Pak: Former Punjab governor Taseer's killer Mumtaz Qadri executed
Updated On : 29 Feb 2016 | 12:22 PM IST