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Melissa Cassidy testifies before the Arkansas Parole Board on March 24 in Little Rock, Ark. The board was considering a clemency request from inmate Stacey Johnson, who was convicted of killing Cassidy's sister, Carol Heath, and is scheduled for execution

National

Arkansas Readies For 8 Executions, Despite Outcry Over Pace, Method

2:21pm March 31, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

The state hasn't carried out an execution in more than a decade, but its supply of the sedative midazolam expires at the end of April. So it plans to execute eight men over 11 days.

Zeinab Sekaanvand, 22, faces execution for allegedly killing her husband. Amnesty International believes she did not get a fair trial.

Health & Safety

Iran Plans To Hang Child Bride Charged With Killing Her Husband

3:47pm October 14, 2016

by Maanvi Singh

International laws and treaties forbid the execution of an offender who was a juvenile at the time of the crime. Zeinab Sekaanvand was 17 when she was charged with stabbing her husband to death.

Death row inmate Kelly Renee Gissendaner is seen in an undated picture from the Georgia Department of Corrections. Following repeated delays, Georgia carried out its first execution of a woman in 70 years on Tuesday evening.

National

Georgia Executes Convicted Female Murderer; Oklahoma Delays An Execution

5:37pm September 30, 2015

by Laura Wagner

Kelly Gissendaner was executed by lethal injection Tuesday for her role in the 1997 murder of her husband. Richard Glossip got a delay just hours before he was scheduled for lethal injection.

National

Utah Brings Back Firing Squad Executions; Witnesses Recall The Last One

2:50pm April 08, 2015

by NPR Staff

A new law in Utah allows firing squad as a backup method of execution if lethal injection drugs aren't available. The last time an inmate died by firing squad in the U.S. was in Utah in 2010.

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Shang Aiyun (second left) and Li Sanren (second right) mourn at the grave of their son, Huugjilt, in Hohhot, China. Huugjilt was executed in 1996 for the rape and murder of a woman in a public toilet. He was cleared of the crime on Monday.

World News

Chinese Man Cleared Of Rape, Murder 18 Years After His Execution

8:26pm December 15, 2014

by Krishnadev Calamur

Chinese authorities offered a rare apology to the family of the 18-year-old from Inner Mongolia. Another man had confessed to the crime after his arrest in 2005.