Execution

Execution

Christa Pike is pictured in 2002. Photo: AP

Pike's lawyers say Tennessee ignored medical warnings before botched execution

Christa Pike’s lawyers had raised concerns about her diagnosis of essential thrombocytosis, a condition that causes an abnormally high level of platelets in the blood.

Majeda Begum raised her young son Maruf in the condemned cell. Photos: Moshfiqur Rahman Johan

Surviving death row: Returning from the gallows, and life afterwards

The Iranian flag. Photo: Reuters/Leonhard Foeger

Soaring Iran executions seemingly 'tool of state intimidation': UN

A view shows the damages of a residential building after the Israeli attacks on June, in Tehran, Iran, July 17, 2025. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/ FIle Photo

Iran executes 'one of most important spies' for Israel

Saudi Arabia executes journalist over social media posts

Saudi Arabia executes journalist over social media posts

Roza, daughter of Jahangir Alam, one of the victims of the widely discussed seven-murder incident in Narayanganj, looks at a photo of her father in the photo taken recently. Photo: Sabit Al Hasan/TBS

11 years after Narayanganj seven murders, families await verdict's implementation

Police vehicles part in front of the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Yixing, eastern Chinese city of Wuxi on Nov. 17, 2024, a day after a stabbing attack took place. Photo: Collected

China executes 2 for deadly 'revenge on society' attacks

Executed Ekramul Haque with his two daughters. Photo: Courtesy

For Ekramul’s family, justice has taken a backseat to daily survival

The event took place in front of the university’s TSC on 4 Nov. Photo: TBS

Hasina, Quader's symbolic execution staged at DU

The Iranian flag is seen flying over a street in Tehran, Iran, 1 February, 2023. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Iran executes four people it says are linked to Israeli intelligence -state media

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk. File Photo: Reuters

UN rights chief deplores US nitrogen gas execution

Jeff Hood, spiritual advisor to Kenneth Smith, stands for a portrait before the scheduled execution by asphyxiation using pure nitrogen of Smith, convicted for a murder-for-hire committed in 1988, at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, U.S. January 25, 2024. REUTER/Micah Green

Alabama completes first execution by nitrogen asphyxiation

Photo: Cillected

Alabama to carry out first nitrogen gas execution