Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, chairwoman of Van Thinh Phat Holdings Group, has been sentenced to death for her involvement in a financial fraud totaling 304 trillion dong ($12.5 billion), marking the country’s largest financial scandal to date. The sentencing is a key moment in Vietnam’s intensifying crackdown on corruption, led by Communist … Read more
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to halt the execution of Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey, who was convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband nearly 20 years ago. Dorsey is set to die by lethal injection on Tuesday night after the high court rejected two separate bids to intervene. There … Read more
Use of the death penalty surged by 43 percent following huge protests prompted by Mahsa Amini’s death. Iran hanged at least 834 people in 2023, the second-highest number of executions in two decades, according to a report released by rights groups. The report, released on Tuesday by Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Paris-based Together … Read more
Colorado lawmakers want to change the state constitution so that first-degree murder defendants can once again be held in jail without bail. The push comes just eight months after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that all criminal defendants — including those charged with first-degree murder — must be given the chance to pay bail and … Read more
It marked the first time that a new execution method has been used in the United States since lethal injection, now the most commonly used method, was introduced in 1982. Kenneth Eugene Smith. Photo: Alabama Department of Corrections The execution took about 22 minutes, and Smith appeared to remain conscious for several minutes. For at … Read more
Convicted murderer Kenneth Smith, who survived an earlier execution attempt by lethal injection, was killed on Thursday night. Kenneth Smith, a convicted murderer, has become the first person to be executed by asphyxiation with nitrogen gas in the United States. Officials said 58-year-old Smith was pronounced dead at 8:25pm on Thursday (02:25 GMT on Friday) … Read more
By Mari Yamaguchi | Associated Press TOKYO — A Japanese court sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of murder and other crimes Thursday for carrying out an arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto that killed 36 people. The Kyoto District Court said it found the defendant, Shinji Aoba, mentally capable … Read more
The execution will be the first attempt to use a new execution method since the 1982 introduction of lethal injection, now the most common execution method in the United States. Alabama will be allowed to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Alabama says it … Read more
The United Nations has urged the Nigerian government to abolish the death penalty. Currently, Nigeria’s correctional centres have 3,413 inmates on death row, Abubakar Umar, spokesperson for the Nigerian Correctional Services, said last December. Member States of the global body called for an immediate moratorium on the death penalty pending its abolition from Nigeria’s criminal … Read more
