Execution

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.

President Maithripala Sirisena will end the moratorium that has been in place on executions since 1976.

The cult leader masterminded the 1995 chemical attack on Tokyo's subway that killed 13 people.

The Iraqi authorities are fast-tracking trials for prisoners in the war against ISIS, including European women who traveled to Iraq to marry fighters for the group.

After intense backlash against the "Polish death camps" law, Warsaw is watering it down to remove criminal punishment.

The most important question is whether killing prisoners with nitrogen is cruel and unusual, the constitutional threshold for death penalty implementation.

Military investigators said Elor Azaria was driven by a "twisted ideology."

As the Syrian military and its allies advance on the ISIS' last stronghold south of Damascus, the jihadis' tactics grow more bloody.

In denying an appeal from Branch, the Florida Supreme Court noted the extreme savagery of his crime.

The so-called "Beatles" were known for their U.K. accents and exceptionally brutal methods of torture and execution.

Ross Allen Geiger asked Governor John Kasich to give Tibbetts mercy after he discovered crucial information that had been withheld from the jury before it made its decision to sentence him to death 20 years ago.