Executions

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Nevada’s plan to use fentanyl has drawn criticism from medics and activists who call the move a dangerous human experiment

Both director and producer are stuck in an anachronistic milieu that will not be inconvenienced by nuanced and sensitive storytelling.

But, more importantly, how much more will the top brass of North Korea tolerate?

A US court has blocked The Apothecary Shoppe from selling a drug used in executions that has could cause "lingering and ultimately inhumane pain".

Seven Saudi men convicted of theft have been beheaded, more than a week after rights group appealed to the king for clemency.

Japan has carried out three executions since its new prime minister was elected – a sign Tokyo will defy pressure to abolish executions.

Amnesty International says it fears Zimbabwe will resume executions after prison officials were quoted saying they have found a new hangman.

A South African woman who is due to be executed by China for drug smuggling is apparently unaware of her fate, as is the practice of the state.

As a teenager, Babul Miah was sent to prison for a murder he says he never committed but the promise of an early release turned him into a hangman.

China, Iran, North Korea, Yemen and the United States carried out the most executions last year.

Iran has hanged almost 50 people during the past three weeks, according to human rights groups.

A human rights group said on Wednesday that China retained its position as the world’s top executioner in 2008.

A Khartoum court condemned four Islamists to death on Wednesday for the 2008 killing of a US diplomat and his Sudanese driver.

A US Army master sergeant convicted of murder in the 2007 killings of four bound and blindfolded Iraqis will be sentenced on Thursday.