Missing from Trump’s flurry of last-minute pardons were Snowden, Assange, or Reality Winner. Instead, the president will leave office with a record number of executions under his belt and a slew of pardons for political allies.
The media was quick to oversell the story, which was based on the limited testimony of Syrian rebels.
A report from Amnesty International citing testimony from a handful of rebels and other opposition figures, and claiming a large number of hangings carried out by the Syrian government at a single prison has been quickly accepted by media outlets, and in many cases far
One thing Georgia and Texas have in common that has allowed them to execute more inmates than other states is a seemingly reliable supply of execution drugs.
ATLANTA — Georgia led the nation this year in the number of inmates put to death, an anomaly that's due at least in part to executions in Texas dipping into single digits for the first time in 20 years. With nine lethal injections in 2016, Georgia accounted for nearly half of the 20 executions nationwide. It was the most
Several prisoners who were convicted as children were among 47 people killed in a mass execution on January 2nd this year.
The UN’s child rights committee has called on Saudi Arabia to end child executions, amid fears for three juveniles who face beheading in relation to protests.
In a report published this morning, experts from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child condemned the Gulf kingdom for its practice of sentencing children toThe Minister-President of Belgium’s Flanders on Wednesday declined Saudi Arabia’s request for military equipment supplies to the country amid Riyadh executions and the conflict in Yemen.
MOSCOW — "We have rejected the request [for military equipment supplies to Saudi Arabia]," Geert Bourgeois told the Flemish Parliament, as quoted by the RTBF broadcaster. On Tuesday, Bourgeois said in an interview with the broadcaster that he would not give permission for arms sales to Saudi Arabia given
Europe is showing a lot less willingness than the U.S. to look the other way on the Saudi executions.
Historically cozy US-Saudi relations have kept the Obama Administration relatively quiet on the weekend Saudi execution of a top Shi’ite cleric, a move that US officials warned them against and which they did anyhow. Europe, however, is showing a lot less willingness to look the other way on the Saudi executions, and while the Saudis scramble to
In immediate aftermath of mass executions, Canada confirms that mega-sale of arms to Gulf state will proceed.
Despite condemning Saudi Arabia's recent mass executions and raising concerns about human rights abuses, the Canadian government said this week it is moving forward with a controversial $15 billion weapons sale to the Gulf state. Reportedly
