Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have carried out a public execution in the eastern city of Khost KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities carried out a public execution at a stadium ...

An attempt to delay Tennessee's next execution over concerns about its new lethal injection protocol was shot down in late November, two weeks before Harold Wayne Nichols is scheduled to be put to ...

GENEVA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Friday that the killing of two Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank by Israeli security forces the previous day appeared to be a "summary ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban made a 13-year-old carry out a public execution in front of thousands of onlookers, shooting a man who had killed more than a dozen members of the boy’s family. An estimated ...

Around 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution, the largest crowd for a hanging in early American history. The crime? Sedition. Thomas Hickey, a member of George Washington’s personal guard, was ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A death row inmate endured a horrific botched execution when one of the electric chair's straps broke - engulfing him in flames and filling the air with the stench of "burning flesh". John Louis Evans ...

A South Carolina killer who murdered three people in a week and taunted police with a message written in blood is set to become the third inmate in the state executed by the controversial firing squad ...

The man had been convicted of killing 13 members of a family, including children, and was executed by one of their relatives, according to police.