Death row
Iran to execute first woman prisoner linked to January protests as regime executions surge
Bita Hemmati and three others have been sentenced to death for 'collusion' and 'propaganda.' Advocates claim the charges are baseless, citing a secretive process and state-televised interrogations.
Iran responsible for majority of executions as 2024 marks deadliest year since 2015
Tree of Life murderer is one of 3 death row inmates exempted from Biden’s commutation order
Jewish death row inmate granted new trial after judge's antisemitic statements uncovered
Arizona wants to use Zyklon B to execute inmates on death row
Hydrogen cyanide gas, named by the Third Reich as Zyklon B, was used by the Nazis to kill over a million people in the Holocaust. The state of Arizona now wants to use it in executions.
Saudis vowed to stop executing minors but some death sentences remain
The decree was never carried on state media nor published in the official gazette as would be normal practice.
First US federal execution in 17 years carried out on white supremacist
Daniel Lewis Lee was convicted of murdering a family of Jewish descent in 1996.
Jewish inmate claims judge was antisemitic, wins stay of execution
In May, Halprin said in an appeal that the judge who sentenced him in 2003, Vickers Cunningham, referred to him using anti-Semitic slurs, including “f****n’ Jew” and “g*****n k**e.”
Jewish death row inmate appeals to Supreme Court
“Texas made an antisemitic judge the sole arbiter of whether a Jewish defendant facing the death penalty would get a fair trial before a fair tribunal,” said his attorney, Tivon Schardl.