Melissa Lucio had been set for lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2007 death of her daughter Mariah in Harlingen,a city of about 75,000 in Texas’ southern tip.
Richard Branson has appealed directly to Singapore’s president and prime minister to spare Nagen’s life and warned of potential financial ramifications if the execution goes ahead.
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam thinks he’s going home to his family. But he could be hanged within days in Singapore.
The executions come at a time of heightened concern over Saudi Arabia’s human rights record,but also as the West scrambles to replace its dependence on Russian oil.
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam was due to be hanged on Wednesday morning and become the first prisoner executed in Singapore since 2019.
The Malaysian man was to become the first prisoner executed in Singapore in two years,but his lawyers believed he should be spared because of an intellectual impairment and mental illness.
“He doesn’t get what’s happening,” say lawyers for the convicted drug trafficker,who will be the first executed prisoner since 2019.
President Bashar Assad’s hometown of Qardaha in Latakia province was hard hit by the fires.
Ethel Rosenberg was convicted of espionage on flimsy evidence that included perjured testimony from her brother.
Lai Xiaomin was executed on charges of taking bribes in an unusually severe penalty for a recent corruption case.
President Donald Trump,an ardent supporter of capital punishment,sped up federal executions at the end of his term. Joe Biden is expected to discontinue them.