A wave of executions is feared in Iran
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The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one so young.
When a 19-year-old wrestler and two other men were hanged in the holy city of Qom on Thursday, Iran’s theocratic regime was sending a message to both dissenters inside the country and opponents
Two sources confirmed to CBS News that Saleh Mohammadi, a young member of Iran's national wrestling team, was among the three men executed in Iran.
Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call humane.
James Broadnax, sentenced to death for a 2008 double murder in Garland, has long been identified as the gunman. But now Damarius Cummings says he was the shooter.
In his complaint, Michael Wade Nance said his veins were so severely compromised that they were likely to blow and cause him to suffer “excruciating pain” during the execution.
Sports world mourns the reported execution of Iranian wrestling star Saleh Mohammadi, 19, who Iran International says was publicly hanged by Iran's regime.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a last-minute petition from Michael King, 54, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday by lethal injection.
An Idaho representative seeks to shield execution team members, and grant greater power to the state prison director over capital punishment.