An Alabama prisoner convicted of the 1994 murder of a female hitchhiker is slated to become the third person executed in the U.S., and Alabama, by nitrogen gas on Thursday. Carey Dale Grayson, 50, was one of four teenagers convicted of killing Vickie Deblieux, 37, who was hitchhiking through Alabama on her way to her…
SINGAPORE: An Indian-origin Singaporean activist has been referred to the office that administers Singapore‘s fake news law for investigation, after she defied an order to carry a correction notice in her social media posts about the legal processes for death row inmates. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Thursday (October 31) that Kokila…
Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces, has been executed in Iran after being convicted on terror charges disputed by his family, the country’s judiciary reported Monday. Sharmahd, 69, was one of several Iranian dissidents abroad in recent years either tricked or kidnapped back to Iran as…
