The North Korean government executed the former US Nuclear Envoy and four other foreign ministry officials in March following a failed summit between the DPRK and US leaders. Kim Hyuk Chol was allegedly shot after being charged ...
US President Donald Trump has called for the execution of all criminals who killed police officers. He stated this at an event dedicated to the memory of the police officers who died in the line of duty, writes Gazeta.ru. The US President noted that attacks on police officers must stop. He offered to sentence the killers ...
The Bobruisk court in Belarus handed down a death sentence to Alexander Osipovich - he was found guilty of double murder with extreme cruelty, the Belarusian service of Radio Liberty reports. “By a court verdict, the accused was found guilty of the intentional unlawful deprivation of life (murder) of two persons, committed with particular cruelty,...
The illegal immigrant, deported six times, could face death if convicted of the brutal murder of three men who were beaten with a baseball bat, police said Wednesday. A 47-year-old citizen of El Salvador was arrested on Monday in Santa Monica after he ...
After a series of cases where attempts to execute a criminal by lethal injection ended in failure, the humanity of this method has been called into question. But are there even “humane” ways to kill a person? The BBC publication was looking for an answer to this question. In 1982, for the first time in the USA...
In Belarus, in mid-May, the death sentences were carried out against two criminals: 32-year-old Alexei Mikhaleni and 30-year-old Viktor Letov. Their execution became known during the consideration of the appeal by the country's Supreme Court of two other criminals who were sentenced to ...
A suspect in the Santa Fe school shooting can be considered an adult in the Texas courts, but cannot be sentenced to death under a 2005 Supreme Court ruling. For 100 years, Texas believed 17-year-old suspects were adults, according to Project Marshall research, ...
In the United States, people are most often executed in Texas. One former civil servant from the state, by virtue of her duties, observed in every detail the execution of hundreds of death sentences. She shared her feelings with BBC correspondent Ben Durs and told how ...
In the US state of Texas, 38-year-old Rosendo Rodriguez was executed after he was found guilty of murdering a 29-year-old prostitute in 2005. This was reported by RBC with reference to Reuters. The execution took place in the Huntsville prison, the sentence was set in motion by lethal injection. ...
In the state of Georgia, 67-year-old serial killer Carlton Gary, known as the "stocking strangler", was executed, writes RIA Novosti. The offender was injected with a lethal injection. He refused the last supper. Carlton Gary was sentenced to capital punishment in 1986 on murder charges and ...