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USA

Pike describes 'pain in my mind and in my soul' after failed execution

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World News

Christa Pike's lawyer: She woke up and began talking

Christa Pike has regained consciousness after surviving two supposedly lethal doses of pentobarbital during a botched execution. Her lawyer says Pike was believed to be brain dead and close to being taken off life support before unexpectedly waking up and speaking.

USA

Texas execution first in US since Pike's botched lethal injection

Texas has executed seven people so far this year, up from five in both 2025 and 2024. A further two executions are scheduled to take place in the state in November.

USA

Female US inmate in critical condition after botched execution

Pike was 18 when she and her boyfriend beat and killed Colleen Slemmer, 19, at a job training camp for young people.

World News

Death-row inmate Christa Pike seen during murder trial

File footage shows Christa Pike during her murder trial in Tennessee in 1996 and 2012.

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USA

US death row inmate in hospital after surviving two lethal injections

Pike was 18 when she and her boyfriend beat and killed Colleen Slemmer, 19, at a job training camp for young people.

World News

Egyptian TV presenter Sarah Khalifa sentenced to death

In Egypt, a court sentenced 12 people, including popular TV presenter Sarah Khalifa, to death in a major drug manufacturing and trafficking case.

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Iran

Iran executes 'foreign national' over involvement in January protests

Iran executed another protester on Thursday over the deadly 2026 Isfahan unrest, as rights groups warn of forced confessions and death sentences used to stifle dissent.

Iran

Iran executed at least 900 people since January, rights group says

The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center documented 901 executions in the first seven months of 2026, including 56 on political or national security charges and 98 members of ethnic minorities — a further rise in death penalties in the Islamic Republic in recent years.

Iran

Iran publicly executes two Isfahan protesters despite UN calls to stop

Two protesters were publicly executed in Isfahan on Tuesday morning, bringing the total to four deaths out of 12 sentenced in the same case, after UN experts slammed coerced confessions and closed trials.

Iran

Iran executes man over January protests as crackdown on dissent widens

Mohammad Amini Dehaghani was convicted of setting fire to a governor's office in Isfahan on 9 January, as Amnesty International says Iran is using wartime conditions as a pretext to accelerate politically motivated executions.

Europe News

Family of last woman executed in UK wins posthumous pardon

A mother of two children, Ellis' execution in 1955 provoked an outcry and helped swing public opinion against the death penalty.

Iran

Iran executes two men over alleged mosque attack as crackdown deepens

Two men were executed after being convicted of setting a Tehran mosque on fire during protests that erupted over the collapse of the rial, as Amnesty International documented 39 political executions and more than 6,000 arrests since the war began in February.

Iran

Iran executes two over protests, war and sentences four more to death

Iran executed two men over the January protests and the war while a Tehran court sentenced four to death in a 2022 protest case amid UN condemnation.

Iran

Iran secretly executes four as it hits global death sentence record

Four more men, including two Kurdish political activists, were put to death in secret this week without informing their families, as Amnesty International recorded 2,159 executions in Iran last year — the highest of any country.

Iran

Iran executes aerospace engineer for alleged CIA and Mossad espionage

Iran has executed a 29-year-old aerospace engineer Erfan Shakourzadeh on Monday for alleged spying, despite his claims of torture and coerced confession, according to his note from prison.

Iran

Tehran regime executes three protesters, one 'without evidence'

Iran’s judiciary says three protesters detained over the January unrest in the city of Mashhad have been hanged, as rights groups report four murder convicts were executed in a unrelated case in Isfahan.