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BOISE (Idaho Statesman) – Days after Idaho made the switch to a firing squad for executions, two Idaho death row prisoners next in line to be put to death sued the state prison system, saying its director withheld information about how she settled on the specifics for carrying out the method.Attorneys for prisoners Thomas Creech and Gerald Pizzuto filed suit this week in state d...

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Iranian authorities executed Hossein Vahidpour and Farshad Pahlavani, convicted of murder in a joint case, at Semnan Central Prison last month.According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Hossein Vahidpour, 24, and Farshad Pahlavani, 26, were executed at dawn on June 16, 2026, at Semnan Central Prison.Sources familiar with the case said Vahidpou...

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Dennis Michael Sochor is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday, the 29th person executed by the state in the past 19 months.Dennis Michael Sochor, convicted of strangling an 18-year-old woman he met at a New Year’s celebration in a Broward County bar 44 years ago, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday at Florida State Prison.His last wish?To have Gov. Ron DeSantis perso...

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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for the Pasco County execution of Dominick Occhicone, scheduled for July 28. Defense attorneys argue the 80-year-old double-murderer is too old and frail to be executed under the 8th Amendment.HOLIDAY, Fla. - Dominick Occhicone is scheduled to face execution on July 28 for the 1986 cold-blooded murders of his ex-girlfriend's parents in Pa...

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A Dead Woman’s Sentence Is Commuted to Life in Prison. Justice or Farce?On July 8, England’s Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, David Lammy, informed his colleagues in the House of Commons that King Charles had granted a conditional pardon to a woman who was executed on July 13, 1955. The beneficiary of the King’s posthumous mercy was Ruth Ellis, who, as a report in th...

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