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Facebook Post Brings Death Sentence in Tunisia

Court finds 51-year-old insulted president and spread false information

(Newser) - A court in Tunisia has sentenced a 51-year-old man to death over Facebook posts deemed offensive to President Kais Saied and a threat to state security, his lawyer said Friday. The defendant, who has not been identified, was convicted on Wednesday of three charges: attempting to overthrow the state, insulting...

US Hoops Player Facing Death Penalty Over Edibles 'Mistake'

Jarred Shaw was arrested in Indonesia after being busted with gummies he says were for his Crohn's

(Newser) - American basketball player Jarred Shaw is facing the death penalty in Indonesia after being caught with a parcel of cannabis gummies he says were to treat his Crohn's disease. Shaw, a Dallas native and former Utah State standout, made a name for himself on Indonesian courts, helping the...

Pope Delivers 'Sharpest Criticism' of Trump Policies

Leo speaks out on 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the US

(Newser) - Pope Leo XIV addressed US politics on Tuesday, voicing concern over President Trump's rhetoric and challenging self-described pro-life advocates to reject both harsh immigration policies and the death penalty—drawing pushback from the White House. Speaking in Italy after the meeting of American military brass in Virginia, at...

Florida Carries Out 13th Execution of the Year

Victor Tony Jones killed married couple during robbery

(Newser) - A man convicted of killing a married couple during a robbery in South Florida in 1990 was put to death Tuesday in a record 13th execution this year in the state. Victor Tony Jones, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:13pm following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near...

Trump: 'Capital City, Capital Punishment'

He directs Bondi, Pirro, to pursue death penalty to the maximum extent possible in DC

(Newser) - The city council of Washington, DC, abolished the death penalty more than 40 years ago but President Trump wants to make it part of his crackdown on crime in the capital. On Thursday, he signed a memo directing prosecutors to seek the death penalty in "all appropriate cases" in...

37 Inmates Spared by Biden Are Headed to Supermax

They'll be treated like they're still on death row, Bondi says

(Newser) - Dozens of former federal death row inmates will spend the rest of their lives being treated like they're still on death row, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday. She said the 37 inmates whose sentences were commuted to life without parole by then-President Biden less than a month...

Alabama, Texas Carry Out Executions
Alabama, Texas
Put 2 Men to Death
Sep 26, 2025 12:00 AM CDT

Alabama, Texas Put 2 Men to Death

In Alabama case, son of victim had pleaded for killer's life to be spared

(Newser) - Two executions took place Thursday night, the 32nd and 33rd in the US this year:
  • An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman during a 1997 gas station robbery was put to death Thursday after apologizing to his victim's family and pleas from the woman's son to spare
...

Judge Not Happy With Trump's Comments on Luigi Mangione

White House comments risk prejudicing murder case and fair trial, judge says

(Newser) - A federal judge is demanding answers from the Trump administration after top officials publicly accused Luigi Mangione of murder, defying a court order meant to protect his right to a fair trial. The controversy began after President Trump, in a Fox News interview, claimed Mangione "shot someone in...

Mangione Lawyers Say Case Has Been 'Fatally Prejudiced'

They want death penalty off the table in federal case

(Newser) - Luigi Mangione's lawyers urged a judge on Saturday to bar federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, arguing that authorities prejudiced his case by turning his arrest into a "Marvel movie" spectacle and by publicly declaring their desire to see...

State's Only Death Row Inmate Granted New Hearing

NH's top court will hear appeal 6 years after state abolished death penalty

(Newser) - New Hampshire's only inmate on death row has been granted a rare opportunity to plead his case for a life sentence before the state's highest court. In a brief single-page order handed down Monday, New Hampshire's Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal of Michael Addison, 45,...

Death Row Inmate Has Bizarre Take on Execution

Judge overrules Steven Bixby, who believes only treason is punishable by death

(Newser) - A South Carolina judge has ruled that Steven Bixby, a death row inmate convicted of killing two law enforcement officers in 2003, is mentally fit to be executed, despite his unconventional legal and religious beliefs. Judge R. Scott Sprouse's decision opens the way for Bixby, 58, to receive...

N. Korea Is Executing People for Watching Foreign Films

UN reports says executions have been stepped up since 2020

(Newser) - A new United Nations report finds North Korea is increasingly using the death penalty for ordinary citizens, including those caught watching or distributing foreign films and TV shows. The investigation, which drew on interviews with more than 300 people who escaped the country in recent years, says Kim Jong...

State May Be First to Mainly Use Firing Squads in Executions

Idaho is aiming for this method, using remote-control system

(Newser) - Idaho is preparing to make firing squads its main execution method, a first for any US state, as it works to build a new death chamber south of Boise, to be ready by next summer. Under a new state law, firing squad executions will take priority starting in July...

On Alabama's Agenda: a Nitrogen Gas Execution

Gov. Kay Ivey has set an execution date of Oct. 23 for Anthony Boyd

(Newser) - Alabama has scheduled an October execution by nitrogen gas for an inmate who has an ongoing lawsuit challenging the new method as unconstitutionally cruel. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday set an Oct. 23 execution date for Anthony Boyd. Boyd, 53, is one of four men convicted in the 1993...

Mexico Ships 26 Cartel Figures in Deal With Administration

Transfer follows US promise not to seek death penalty

(Newser) - Mexican officials, under pressure from President Trump to keep fentanyl from crossing the border. announced Tuesday they were sending 26 high-ranking drug cartel members to the US as part of an agreement with the administration. In return, US officials pledged not to pursue the death penalty in the cases,...

Tennessee Man Charged With Killing 4 Faces Death Penalty

Austin Robert Drummond ordered held without bond after first hearing

(Newser) - Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a Tennessee man charged with killing the parents, grandmother, and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home's front yard. Austin Robert Drummond, 28, appeared Thursday via a video feed from jail before a judge in Tiptonville, two days after...

Rights Group Sees 'Horrifying' Trend in Saudi Executions

Amnesty International says hundreds of low-income foreigners executed on drug charges

(Newser) - Amnesty International is raising the alarm over what it calls a "horrifying" number of foreigners being executed in Saudi Arabia over drug charges. The human rights organization counts roughly 600 drug-related executions over the last decade, and it says most of those put to death after "grossly...

Kohberger Agrees to Plea Deal in Idaho Students' Slayings

Family of one victim says, 'We are beyond furious'

(Newser) - Bryan Kohberger, who's charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death in 2022, has agreed to a plea deal that would let the 30-year-old avoid a murder trial and the possibility of the death penalty. One of the victims' family members was informed of the deal in...

Inmate's Last Words: 'Peace to Everyone'

Oklahoma executes John Fitzgerald Hanson, who kidnapped and killed a woman

(Newser) - Oklahoma executed a man Thursday whose transfer to state custody was expedited by the Trump administration, per the AP . "Peace to everyone," said John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, while strapped to a gurney inside the prison's death chamber. The execution began at 10:01am. After the lethal drugs...

Alabama Carries Out Its 5th Nitrogen Gas Execution

Gregory Hunt put to death for woman's 1988 murder

(Newser) - An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation's sixth execution by nitrogen gas, the AP reports. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead at 6:26pm at a south Alabama prison, authorities said, one of four executions scheduled this...

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