South Carolina inmate Richard Moore became the first to pick a firing squad execution under a new state law forcing inmates to choose between the alternative of the electric chair. This choice between "two unconstitutional methods of execution" may become more common as lethal injection drugs are increasingly scarce.

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Rodney Reed Rallies Public Support In Case, Asking Gov. Abbott To Stop His Execution Amid New Evidence Rodney Reed is scheduled to be executed in Texas on November 20th. He’s been on death row for 21 years for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites in Bastrop, Texas. Police claim Reed assaulted, raped and strangled Stites, […]

The man photographed above is Mohammad Mostafaei, a human rights attorney in Iran who has since fleed the country due to the attention of one of his previous case of the 43-year-old woman sentenced to death by stoning. He was also representing a poor guy who is being executed for being homosexual…even though he’s not […]