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Britain on Monday sanctioned more Iranian figures over what it said were human rights violations on Iranian people including the recent execution of British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari. The sanctions included an asset freeze on Iranian deputy prosecutor general Ahmad Fazelian, who the British foreign office said was responsible for…

Kenya’s last execution of a prisoner was in 1987. But the country still hosts a death row population of nearly 600. Almost all were sentenced to death for murder or robbery with violence. New sentences are handed down every year.

Arizona has paused all executions in the state while a review of its death penalty process is conducted, the state’s attorney general said.

An independent report uncovered major errors in Tennessee's lethal injection protocols as multiple executions were carried out without testing the drugs used in the death penalty process