TEHRAN, August 19 - Saudi Arabian sources are reporting public beheading of a female activist, who had spent three years in detention for criticizing the kingdom's rulers.
TEHRAN, August 11 -Tennessee carried out its first execution of the year, putting to death a man convicted of raping and killing a 7-year-old girl 32 years after his conviction.
TEHRAN, July 07 - Eight members of the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group convicted of carrying out attacks on Iranian parliament and the mausoleum of Imam Khomeini in June 2017 were executed on Saturday.
TEHRAN, April 29 - A court in Iraq has handed down life sentences to nearly two dozen Russian women over illegal entry, membership in Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, and involvement in acts of terror across the war-ravaged Arab country.
TEHRAN, April 12 - Amnesty International has expressed grave concern over pronunciation of death sentences and resumption of execution s in Bahrain as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on pro-democracy campaigners in the country.
TEHRAN, January 26 - Egypt must stop execution s until it has reviewed all death sentences and retry any convictions that are found to rest on unfair trials, five independent U.N. human rights experts said on Friday.
TEHRAN, August 12, YJC - Ten Nobel laureates from across the world have called on Saudi Arabia to hold off on the execution of 14 Shia citizens convicted of protest-related charges.
TEHRAN, August 5, YJC - Saudi Arabia has defended the death penalties it has handed down to 14 Shia nationals amid criticisms that the defendants were tortured into false confessions and convicted in sham trials.
TEHRAN, July 25, YJC -Human rights group Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia to halt the execution s of 14 individuals who were sentenced to death following a “grossly unfair mass trial” as part of the kingdom’s “bloody execution spree.”
TEHRAN, July 15, YJC -An international human rights group says Saudi officials have moved a disabled man sentenced to death for attending an anti-regime protest into solitary confinement in preparation for his execution .
TEHRAN, June 7, YJC - International rights groups say Saudi Arabia plans to execute 14 Shia civilians following a "grossly unfair trial" over political protests.
TEHRAN, May 18, YJC - The United Nations' top court has ordered Pakistan to stay the execution of an Indian man convicted of involvement in espionage and sabotage activities.
TEHRAN, April 10, YJC - Saudi Arabia has beheaded three Pakistani nationals after sentencing them to death on charges related to drug trafficking, bringing to 26 the number of execution s in the kingdom this year.
Tehran, YJC. -- A former Iranian ambassador cautioned Saudi Arabian leaders against the ramifications of executing top Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, saying a wrong decision will lead the ruling family to an imminent collapse.
US states' reliance on hiding information about products used in execution s is becoming increasingly common, a report said Wednesday, a week after a botched execution left a man writhing in Oklahoma.
TEHRAN, YJC. 7 years ago the 17-year-old Balal was ruled guilty for the murder of a friend. On Tuesday the victim's family forgave Balal just as he was about to be executed. The victim's father, a football instructor, says he wants to build a football school with the compensation they are going to receive as an alternative to retribution by kind.