Altogether, the Germans murdered 6 million Jews, or two-thirds of all of Europe’s Jews, in the Holocaust at Auschwitz and other camps, in ghettoes, and in mass executions close to people’s homes.

Unlike neighboring states like Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama, it has not carried out an execution in 15 years. Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row ...

A bill proposes firing squads for executions instead of lethal injections, citing flaws in the current method. If the bill passes, inmates who committed crimes before Nov. 23, 1992 can choose ...

The move is the next step in the process to resume executions in Tennessee, which were formally paused in 2022 over quality concerns with the drugs used in lethal injection. Several other people ...

The United Nations has expressed “alarm” over a sharp rise in reported executions of Ukrainian soldiers captured by Russian armed forces. According to a report published on Monday by the UN ...

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has not been used in the US in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die on March 7.

Christopher Sepulvado, an 81-year-old Louisiana man who was scheduled to be executed, died Saturday night according to his lawyers, just days after a judge handed down an execution date.

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has registered a sharp rise in reported summary executions of Ukrainian soldiers captured by Russian armed forces. Since the end of August ...

IT COMES JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS SCHEDULED EXECUTION. WDSU REPORTER JASMINE FRANKLIN IS LIVE TRACKING NEW REACTION TONIGHT. JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED ...

A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad, which would make him only the fourth inmate in the U.S. to die by this execution method. Brad Sigmon, 67, who is ...

Iran carried out at least 975 executions last year in a "horrifying escalation" of capital punishment, according to Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and French group Together Against the ...

On January 31, 2025, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, raised concerns in relation to reports of summary executions of civilians allegedly carried out by militias allied with ...