Firing Squad
Afghanistan
Afghanistan | Taliban hold public execution for 2 men
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban carried out a double public execution Thursday at a stadium in the country’s southeast, w...
Asia
Inside China's brutal death policy: 'World’s worst executioner'
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The communist state has a notorious record of imposing the death penalty 'quickly' and 'in large numbers' with a range of ho...
Abolition
The illusion of kinder, gentler executions
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This past week Alabama continued our country’s experiment with different ways to kill people. It executed Kenneth Smith.A brief history. In ...
Alabama
Constitutionality of Death Penalty by Firing Squad, Electric Chair To Be Weighed by South Carolina High Court Next Week
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Is death for inmates by a firing squad or electric chair a form of “cruel and unusual punishment”? That’s the question before South Carolina...
Asia
China | How mobile injection vans and firing squads are used to put thousands to death a year
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Under China's draconian laws, as many as 46 crimes carry the death sentence. The number of people it executes each year is a closely gua...
Alabama
Jeff Landry about Alabama nitrogen gas execution, death penalty in Louisiana
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Landry, who supported gas, firing squads and hanging in the past, will ask the Legislature to expand execution methods.Gov. Jeff Landry will...