There was desperation in the voice of the young Ethiopian man when he managed to get through to the BBC from a phone in his prison cell on death row in Saudi Arabia. Habtom, whose name – like the other prisoner featured in this article – has been changed to protect his identity, has been…
(RNS) — The Supreme Court on Thursday (June 11) prevented Alabama from executing a man who became a Christian ministry leader during his 26 years on death row, deciding that killing him using nitrogen gas was unconstitutional. Jeffery Lee, who is imprisoned for the murder of two people, elected in 2018 to be executed by…
A federal appeals court on Wednesday evening upheld a decision that blocked Alabama from using nitrogen gas in an execution scheduled for this week, forcing the state to turn to an alternate method if it is going to carry out the death penalty against Jeffery Lee, a convicted murderer. Alabama officials had appealed a decision…
US President Donald Trump claimed that his intervention helped save eight women arrested in Iran from the death penalty. Iran responded by saying that none of the women Trump mentioned were never facing execution and accused the president of fake reports. The BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet explains what we know about the women…
