Tag: EXECUTION

Following the shooting of two teenagers in Puerto Asís, Colombia, an anonymous "hit list" was posted to Facebook detailing the names of 69 young Colombian men, including those murdered just two days prior. Sixteen-year-old Diego Ferney Jaramillo and 17-year-old Eibart Alejandro Ruiz Muñoz were killed on a motorcycle while traveling between Puerto Asís and Puerto Caicedo on ...

After spending 25 years on death row, convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner was given the choice of how he would like to be killed. He could either take the more modern, less messy route, via lethal injection, or he could go out in front of a firing squad. Ultimately, Gardner chose the old school route, but Utah's attorney general took a decidedly more modern route in publicizing the man's ...

In China, the precise number executions performed is kept a state secret; estimates by Amnesty International say there were at least 1,770 executions in the country in 2005, but says that the number could be as high as 8,000. In comparison, only 60 prisoners were executed in the US the same year. The number is so high, apparently, that the Chinese government sees fit to operate something ...