A wrestler is set to be executed by Iran only months after they hanged another champion wrestler, Navid Afkari, despite international pleas. Mehdi Ali Hosseini, 29, from Andimeshk, Khuzestan, was arrested in 2015 and charged with murder following a group brawl. The wrestler’s execution is imminent because the victim’s family refused to pardon the athlete … Read more
Twitter has been forced to step in and stop ‘Hang Mike Pence‘ trending in the wake of the MAGA mob riot where Donald Trump supporters called for the Vice President’s execution and strung up a noose outside the Capitol. The phrase was trending on the platform in the early hours of Saturday morning just hours after … Read more
The Trump administration has paid private executioners in cash and bought drugs from a secret pharmacy as part of a rush to execute the most federal prisoners since World War II, court documents obtained by ProPublica reveal. The Justice Department, under Attorney General Bill Barr, has killed 10 federal inmates since July and plans to … Read more
The Trump administration is set to execute the first of five federal inmates before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, putting to death a Texas street-gang member for his role in the 1999 slayings of an Iowa religious couple whose bodies he burned in the trunk of their car. Brandon Bernard, now 40, is scheduled to be executed … Read more