All news on the topic: Execution

The last British woman to be hanged, executed in 1955 for murdering her partner, on Wednesday had her sentence symbolically commuted to ‌life imprisonment by King Charles, on advice from the government that she had suffered an "historical injustice".

Lindsay Foreman says she is keeping sane by reading, doing laps of the prison yard and, when she can, practicing yoga.

China has executed 11 members of the notorious Ming family criminal gang, who ran mafia-like scam centers in Myanmar and killed workers who tried to escape, Chinese state media reported on Thursday.

The man had been convicted along with another of entering a family home in Khost province and killing everyone inside by shooting them.

Officials maintained that the execution had proceeded normally, stating that the extended time was simply to allow the murderer to make his final statements.

An LBC investigation has discovered that horrifying execution videos from Islamist terrorist organizations like the so-called Islamic State are available on Facebook.

Anthony Boyd, 54, has been executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama for his role in the 1993 murder of Gregory Huguley, who was burned alive over a $200 cocaine debt.

A grandmother who was facing execution by firing squad is scheduled to be repatriated to the UK.

Human Rights Watch warns that Saudi authorities are increasingly using capital punishment to silence dissent, citing recent cases such as the execution of a journalist arrested in 2018 for exposing corruption within the royal family.

China has executed a man for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese boy last September, the Japanese embassy in China has told the BBC.

The killer smashed in the skulls of his ex’s parents while high on crack cocaine