# Execution
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This year
2024
United States
Alabama executes man with nitrogen gas using controversial method for the first time
26 Jan
23.4k
134
Death Row
UN urges Alabama to halt first US execution using nitrogen gas, says it could 'amount to torture'
24 Jan
17.0k
56
Last year
2023
Russia
Ukraine vows revenge for soldier shot after saying pro-Ukraine chant in viral video
7 Mar 2023
16.0k
12
Execution
Texas executes man who admitted murders but said trial was tainted by racial bias
9 Feb 2023
15.1k
9
Robert Fratta
Former Texas police officer who hired hitmen to kill wife is executed
11 Jan 2023
35.7k
8
All time
Protests
International outcry of 'inhumanity' as Iran carries out execution over Amini protests
9 Dec 2022
11.5k
6
Death Penalty
US judge halts federal executions hours before resumption
Updated
13 Jul 2020
70.7k
81
Nicholas Sutton
Quadruple murderer put to death in Tennessee despite lawyers request for stay of execution
21 Feb 2020
25.8k
40
Fukuoka
Japan executes Chinese man convicted of 2003 murder - the first foreigner executed in 10 years
26 Dec 2019
23.8k
36
rodney reed
US inmate due to be executed next week granted stay amid claims new evidence could exonerate him
16 Nov 2019
23.5k
32
Charles Rhines
Man who claimed his murder trial was tainted by homophobia executed in South Dakota
5 Nov 2019
26.9k
34
Gary Ray Bowles
Florida executes serial killer who targeted gay men along US east coast
23 Aug 2019
23.7k
37
I-95 KILLER
Florida to execute serial killer who preyed on older, gay men along US east coast
22 Aug 2019
28.5k
28
Lethal Injection
Alabama had to call off an execution at the last minute after it was unable to lift a court order
12 Apr 2019
19.8k
26
tennessee
Death row inmate chooses electric chair over lethal injection, second inmate to do so in last two months
6 Dec 2018
32.0k
46
Lethal Injection
'I just want to say I'm really sorry' - Tennessee executes man who raped and killed a child
10 Aug 2018
45.6k
70
danny bible
'It hurts' - Texas executes 'ice pick killer', denies him last-minute appeal to face firing squad
28 Jun 2018
43.3k
81
Death Penalty
Almost 1,000 executions were recorded last year, including beheadings and lethal injections
12 Apr 2018
21.4k
65
other victims
Texas serial killer gets stay from execution after last-minute revelations
19 Oct 2017
48.5k
39
credible source
Man executed in Texas despite last-ditch claims lawyer defended him using Wikipedia for research
28 Jul 2017
20.8k
20
Death Penalty
Last-minute appeals for mentally ill prisoner due to be executed tomorrow in the US
5 Jul 2017
29.5k
73
Capital Punishment
US prisoner Tommy Arthur executed in Alabama after three decade legal battle
26 May 2017
20.5k
28
Death Penalty
Ohio obtains hundreds of vials of lethal injection drugs so executions can continue
9 Jan 2017
15.6k
50
getting rid of the gallows
30 years ago most Irish people wanted garda killers to be executed
31 Dec 2016
8.6k
47
defected
Diplomat labelled 'human scum' by North Korea vows to expose 'gruesome' regime
20 Dec 2016
24.0k
10
Barney Fuller
"I don't have anything to say, you can proceed, warden" - Texas executes man who killed his neighbours
6 Oct 2016
25.9k
34