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North Korea has executed a 22-year-old man from the rural South Hwanghae province for listening to 70 South Korean songs - including K-pop - and watching three films in 2022

Alabama is seeking to carry out another nitrogen gas execution, months after the state became the first to put a person to death with the previously untested method in the execution of Kenneth Smith

A Missouri man was put to death on Tuesday evening, executed by lethal injection for a crime he insisted he didn't commit. He was convicted largely on circumstantial evidence and also said his public defenders didn't do their jobs well

David Hosier has been on death row for a crime he was convicted of over 10 years ago that he says he didn't commit, he spoke to The Mirror ahead of his scheduled execution to share his thoughts

A death row killer mouthed three words to his family seconds before lethal injection drugs entered his system, killing him relatively quickly. He also gave his family a thumbs-up before he lost consciousness

Four men who were part of a failed coup attempt in Congo will be 'handed to a military tribunal' and dealt with like any other enemy of the state, a military official said

Alabama has scheduled a second execution with nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first to put a person to death with the previously untested method

The legal setback was the latest for Jonathan Carr, 44, and Reginald Carr, 46, as they await execution for a quadruple killing known as the 'Wichita massacre' after the Supreme Court also denied their request

A death row killer could be subject to a 'surgery without anaesthesia' if executioners can't find a suitable vein for the needle that will deliver lethal drugs into his system on Tuesday

Willie James Pye, 59, received an injection of the sedative pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson, Georgia, following his November 1993 conviction for the murder of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough

A Philadelphia inmate was exonerated after serving 30 years on death row for a crime he insists he did not commit — new evidence was presented that all but proved his innocence

Death row killer Ivan Cantu, who was convicted in 2001 for the 2000 murders of his cousin and his cousin's girlfriend in Texas, was put to death on Wednesday despite pushes from Kim Kardashian to stay the execution

The execution of convicted serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech was halted in Idaho after the medical team couldn't locate a vein for an IV to administer the lethal drugs

WARNING: ARTICLE CONTAINS CONTENT SOME MAY FIND DISTRESSING. As lawmakers in South Carolina contemplate using the electric chair for executions, one doctor has shared chilling details of what happens to the body

Dr Joel Zivot from Emory University School of Medicine spoke to The Mirror and explained what actually happens to the body during a lethal injection death including "drowning in your own blood"

Zhang Bo and his girlfriend Ye Chengchen have both been executed after two children were pushed to their deaths off a 15th-floor balcony in southwest China's Chongqing.

The spiritual advisor for convicted hitman Kenneth Eugene Smith accompanied him into the chamber, where he witnessed what he called 'the most horrific thing' he'd ever seen done to another human

Terry Raybon, warden of William C. Holman Correctional Facility, oversaw the death of Kenneth Smith despite being sacked following a scathing report from the Alabama Department of Public Safety

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was pronounced dead at 8.25pm at an Alabama prison after breathing pure nitrogen gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation

Kenneth Smith has become the first-ever inmate to be killed by nitrogen gas after Alabama state officials used a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen

Kenneth Smith has become the first-ever inmate to be killed by nitrogen gas after Alabama state officials used a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen

Alabama plans to put death row prisoner Kenneth Smith to death today using an untested and very controversial execution method that has erupted a wave of harrowing warnings from experts and human rights advocates

Kenneth Smith is set to be executed by the state of Alabama using a controversial method of nitrogen gas, which has never been used before, after his lawyers failed to stop the "cruel" death sentence

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, is scheduled for execution in a 30-hour window starting just after midnight on Thursday, January 25, for his part in a murder-for-hire plot of a pastor's wife

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was sentenced to death for his part in the 1988 murder for hire of Elizabeth Sennet, is set to be executed again after surviving a four-hour ordeal in 2022