BAGHDAD (WCSC) — Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging nearly 20 years ago. Hussein had ruled Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow and capture by a US-led coalition in 2003. He ...

Texas is set to execute a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the ...

Jordan executed by hanging on Wednesday a jailed Iraqi woman militant hours after Islamic State fighters released a video appearing to show a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive in a cage, a ...

The Iranian government has reportedly treated a 19-year-old athlete to a public execution, hanging him on Thursday. The country’s judiciary went through with plans to put wrestler Saleh Mohammadi to ...