The execution was Florida’s first in nearly four years and the third under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. His predecessor, current Republican Senator Rick Scott, oversaw 28 executions. “11,932 days ago Donald Dillbeck brutally murdered our mother. He robbed us of years of memories of her and it has been very painful for us ever since,” … Read more
Alireza Akbari, who was convicted of “corruption on the ground and of undermining the country’s internal and external security by passing on intelligence,” was hanged, Iran’s judicial news agency Mizan Online reported. His execution came despite international outrage over the executions of him and other people detained during mass protests across the country. Mizan Online … Read more
AFP NOS News•Saturday, 8:09 PM Kurdish rapper Saman Seydi will not be executed in Iran for the time being. The country’s Supreme Court has accepted his appeal against his death sentence, meaning a new judge will look at his case. Under the stage name Yasin, the rapper makes music about inequality, oppression and unemployment. The … Read more
Death sentence against 20-year-olds Parents of young Iranian man beg regime 12/19/2022, 6:11 p.m Another young man in Iran is to be executed. His parents record a video asking the mullahs’ regime for his life. Human rights activists report an unfair, hasty process intended to deter protesters. The parents of a young Iranian man facing … Read more
Per Giftspritze Mississippi executes ex-soldiers 12/15/2022 6:46 am It is the first execution in Mississippi this year and the second since 2013: A former soldier sentenced to death dies in a detention center after being injected with lethal injection. In the US state of Mississippi, the death penalty has been carried out for the first … Read more
The international organization for the protection of players’ rights, FIFPro, said on social networks that it was “shocked” by the information that had come to light. FIFPRO is shocked and sickened by reports that professional footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani faces execution in Iran after campaigning for women’s rights and basic freedom in his country. We stand … Read more
(ANSA) – TEHRAN, NOVEMBER 27 – The reasons for the arrest and the charges against Iranian rapper Toumaj Salehi have been formalised. He was arrested in late October for his support for the anti-system protests underway in Iran, sparked since Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody for improper dress. The head of the justice department … Read more
On the evening of November 17, Alabama canceled at the last moment the execution of the death sentence against Kenneth Eugene Smith, a man convicted in 1988 of the murder of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett. Said like this, it sounds like news that has already been heard. In recent years, an execution has often been canceled … Read more
Iran has been marked by demonstrations and riots ever since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini after a clash with the Iranian morality police for not wearing the hijab properly. Several thousand have been arrested, and several protesters have also been killed in confrontations with Iranian police. Nevertheless, thousands of people, mostly young people … Read more
“How do I deal with this? I don’t, it’s sad. I’ve had my husband in prison for 36 years, first on death row, now with a life sentence, for a crime he didn’t commit. And with covid-19 I couldn’t even visit him. I had to settle for five-minute phone calls.” The bitter words are from … Read more