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Iranian footballer sentenced to execution for “campaigning for women’s rights”

FifPro, the international players union, said it was "shocked and sickened" at the reports and called for the punishment to be revoked

Alabama “execution survivor” reaches settlement with state

When prison staff tried to find a vein, they poked him with needles for over an hour and at one point left him hanging vertically as he lay strapped to a gurney

“Botched execution” lasted 90 minutes as Alabama inmate survived “torture”, lawsuit says

Now attorneys representing Miller say he is “the only living execution survivor in the United States”, if not the whole world...

Officers in West Virginia interrupted a funeral by killing a pallbearer seconds after placing his father’s casket in the hearse

Blood sprayed everywhere and caked his 18-year-old son

Ukraine: Two British & one Morocan POWs sentenced to death after “show trial” which violate Geneva Conventions

All three face death by firing squad. They have a month to appeal

Ambush in Athens: 63-year-old businessman was shot with a Kalashnikov

The 63-year-old had stopped at a traffic light and in the car was his stepson and a friend

South Carolina moves closer to allowing death by firing squad

Why do lawmakers want to legalize death by firing squad?

Australian soldiers killed Afghan prisoner as only six could fit on American helicopter, US marine claims

“We just witnessed them kill a prisoner … It was a very deliberate decision to break the rules of war”

The jihadi “Beatles”: The prison cell that’s a fate worse than death

The Supermax cell

Mystery execution: Police still try to identify the Belgian murdered in Voula, Athens

The case is complicated as the victim was found to have two different IDs

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