Provided Images South Carolina resumed executions in September after a new law survived a legal challenge. The law let the state secure more lethal injection drugs by keeping details about them ...

Mississippi is one of five states that still permit executions by firing squad, alongside Utah, Oklahoma, Idaho and South Carolina. However, a firing squad execution has never been conducted in ...

“China always imposed severe penalties on drug-related crimes and maintains a ‘zero tolerance’ attitude towards the drug problem,” it said, without confirming that any executions had taken ...

Nor did the Chinese apparently care about pleas for mercy from Canada before the executions or the protests afterward. “China is a country governed by the rule of law and treats defendants of all ...

Edward Thomas James is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Thursday evening The execution has been delayed until 8 p.m. No reason was provided The execution of a Florida man on death row ...

Oklahoma carried out its first execution of the year on Thursday, putting Wendell Grissom to death for the 2005 murder of Amber Matthews during a home invasion. Grissom’s execution by lethal ...

Three other executions were carried out this week in the U.S., including the lethal injection earlier Thursday of an Oklahoma man for the fatal shooting of a woman during a home invasion.

Beijing's embassy in Ottawa said the executions were because of drug crimes and noted China does not recognise dual citizenship. "We strongly condemn the executions," Ms Joly said. "I asked ...

Such executions of Westerners are relatively rare. Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said she and former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked for clemency in the drug-related accusations involving the ...

Mélanie Joly, the Canadian foreign minister, told reporters that she condemned the executions, and that the government would still seek clemency for others. “We will continue to engage with ...

“China always imposed severe penalties on drug-related crimes and maintains a ‘zero tolerance’ attitude towards the drug problem,” it said, without confirming that any executions had taken ...