Burkina Faso army executed over 220 villagers in February, HRW says
Dakar, Senegal Reuters Burkina Faso’s military in February summarily executed about 223 villagers, including at least 56 children, as part of a campaign against civilians accused of collaborating with jihadist militants, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. The watchdog made the assertions in a report based on its own investigation into the reported execution of […]
Essay: The death penalty says more about us than the condemned
US death row pastor JOE INGLE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says the death penalty is a “barbaric practice no matter how you package it”…
UN experts sound alarm over planned first US execution by nitrogen gas
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters United Nations experts urged US authorities on Wednesday to halt the planned execution of a prisoner by asphyxiation using pure nitrogen, saying the untested method may subject him to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or even torture.” Kenneth Smith, convicted for a murder-for-hire committed in 1988, is scheduled to be executed in the […]
White House: Russia is executing soldiers who refuse to follow orders
Washington DC, USReuters The United States has information that the Russian military is executing soldiers who do not follow orders related to the war with Ukraine, the White House said on Thursday. “We have information that the Russian military has been actually executing soldiers who refuse to follow orders,” White House spokesperson John Kirby told […]
Iran must stop executions of protesters, says UN fact-finding mission
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters A fact-finding mission mandated by the UN urged Iranian authorities on Wednesday to stop executing people who were sentenced to death for taking part in anti-government protests that rocked the country last year. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September, 2022, while in the custody of the country’s morality police unleashed a […]
Mexico investigates troops over video of “execution” of five men
Mexico CityReuters Mexican prosecutors are investigating what the country’s president on Wednesday called an “execution” after soldiers were filmed beating and then shooting five men they pulled from a crashed pick-up truck. The investigation, confirmed by the defense ministry, follows the publication by media outlets on Tuesday of a video dated 18th May from the […]
Mali rejects UN report on alleged execution of 500 villagers by troops
Bamako, Mali Reuters Mali’s interim military government has rejected a United Nations human rights office report on the alleged execution of at least 500 people by Malian soldiers and unidentified foreign fighters during an operation last year. The ruling junta was responding to a report released on Friday after a months-long investigation into what rights […]
Overnight protests rock Tehran, other Iranian cities, videos show
Reuters Protests rocked Iran again overnight Thursday after seeming to have dwindled in recent weeks, with marchers calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, online video posts purportedly showed on Friday. The marches in numerous cities including Tehran that began on Thursday evening and went on into the night marked 40 days since the […]
Faith leaders urge independent review of Alabama executions
Montgomery, Alabama, US AP More than 170 pastors and other faith leaders on Tuesday urged Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to authorise an independent review of execution procedures, as Oklahoma and Tennessee did after a series of failed lethal injections in those states. The group applauded Ivey for taking the “bold and necessary step” of ordering a review of Alabama […]
Offering succour: Spiritual advisers offering final comfort in execution rooms
JIM SALTER, of Associated Press, reports from St Louis in the US…