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The Islamic State West Africa Province killed 11 hostages and released footage of the executions on December 26.

Amnesty International described the Saudi Arabian government's sentencing of five men to death for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi a "whitewash" of justice because they cleared the top officials tied to Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman.

Attorney General William Barr said he was willing to go to the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure federal executions will restart despite a temporary block by a U.S. district judge, according to the Associated Press.

Reed is scheduled to be executed on November 20.

Justen Grant Hall was given the lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, for the 2002 slaying of Melanie Billhartz.

Justen Grant Hall is set to be executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, for the slaying of a woman in 2002.

Charles Russell Rhines, 63, was given the lethal injection at the state prison in Sioux Falls said South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg.

The federal government is set to resume executions with the drug pentobarbital, despite concerns it might violate the Eighth Amendment.

"Man, I want to apologize, I don't know if me passing will bring y'all comfort for the pain and suffering I caused y'all," Mark Anthony Soliz said.

Bowles appeared on "America's Most Wanted" multiple times and made the FBI's Most Wanted List just days before being brought in for questioning.

Knoxville Sheriff's Deputy Grayson Fritts referred to his knowledge of law enforcement while calling on police to round up members of the LGBT community.

El Shafee Elsheikh is one of three remaining members of the group that killed U.S. journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

"Can you imagine if Barack Obama in 2011 had said 'oh, Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran thinks Mitt Romney is low IQ and I'm totally with him,'" Al Jazeera presented Mehdi Hasan said on CNN.

The Bronze Age victims are thought to have been killed by a neighbouring, rival culture.

John William King, on death row for the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd Jr., is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening, unless his attorney's petition to the Supreme Court succeeds.

In 1998, James Byrd Jr. was lynched by three white supremacists. John William King, the ringleader, got the death penalty. More than 20 years after his conviction, he finally faces execution.

Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler wrote to President Donald Trump urging him to mandate public hangings for people who kill law enforcement officers and to fast-track their executions.

Police found half a tonne of ketamine in a 2013 drug raid.

Blaine Milam was sentenced to death in 2010 and was set to be Texas's first execution of 2019.

Ramos will be the eleventh prisoner executed by Texas so far this year.

"He [requested this method] not because he thought that it was a humane way to die, but because he thought that the three-drug cocktail that Tennessee had planned to use was even worse," a U.S. Supreme Court Justice said.

Bibi had been accused of insulting Islam during an argument with neighbors in 2009.

He's been on death row for a decade.

The attacker was reportedly bullied during his time at the school, and retained a grudge against the institution.

The kingdom executed 146 people last year, the third highest figure of any country.

Ameen is believed to have assassinated a police officer in the town of Rawah in 2014 while fighting for ISIS.

Carey Dean Moore has been on death row for almost 40 years.

He was convicted in 1986.

Carey Dean Moore is set to be the first prisoner executed in Nebraska in two decades.

The 1995 chemical attack killed 13 people on the Tokyo subway.