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  1. Agent67

    Iran protests: Tehran court sentences first person to death over unrest

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63621330
  3. LazyLion

    Iran amends law on Stoning for Adultery

    Iran has amended its internationally condemned law on stoning convicted adulterers to death to allow judges to impose a different form of execution, according to the revision seen by AFP on Thursday. The controversial practice, in which stones are thrown at the partially buried offender, has...
  4. LazyLion

    Saudi Executes five Yemenis, puts bodies on display

    Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed five Yemenis convicted of crimes and displayed their bodies in public as a deterrent for future criminals, the government said. The Interior Ministry said the five were convicted of setting up a gang that carried out several crimes, including the murder of a...
  5. LazyLion

    Japan Executes Two Convicts

    Japan hanged two convicts early Friday, the first executions in two months, the Justice Ministry said. Katsuji Hamasaki, 64, and Yoshihide Miyagi, 56, were executed in Tokyo on convictions for the fatal shooting of two leaders of a rival organized crime syndicate at a restaurant in 2005, the...
  6. LazyLion

    US Man Executed in Texas for 2001 Murder of Teen

    A 40-year-old US man was executed in Texas Tuesday for killing a teenager during a carjacking 12 years ago, prison authorities said, the third inmate put to death in the state this year. Ronnie Threadgill was executed by lethal injection at 6:39 pm (2339 GMT) in Huntsville, Texas, shortly...
  7. LazyLion

    Texas Executes Man for 1990 Fatal Shooting, Rape

    A Texas convict with a lengthy criminal history was executed Tuesday evening for fatally shooting a man and raping the slain man's fiancee during a home break-in more than 22 years ago. Rickey Lynn Lewis already had been in and out of prison five times in less than seven years when he was...
  8. LazyLion

    Saudi Arabia Executes Seven Men by Beheading after Appeals Rejected

    Saudi Arabia's official news agency says seven Saudi men convicted of theft, looting and armed robbery have been beheaded, a week after their families appealed to the king for clemency. Human Rights Watch had called for the sentences to be canceled because the men were juveniles when they...
  9. I

    6 siblings executed with AK-47's in South Africa.

    And who was that moron saying a few days ago "South Africa is a safe country"? WTF http://m.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/Gunmen-kill-6-siblings-in-KZN-20130309 Clearly, whichever monkey said that must indeed have very low safety standards.
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