Iran executes a large number of prisoners annually. With months-long protests continuing, capital punishment is being used on some protesters.

In June, four people were sentenced to death in Iran after they were found guilty of being spies connected to Israeli intelligence.

A death row inmate in Tennessee mutilated himself after spending years in solitary confinement with little human contact.

The American national soccer team has replaced the red of the American Flag with the colors of gay pride in their training facility.

Tennessee death row inmate Henry Hodges underwent surgery after severing his penis in a psychotic episode that erupted over a food package.

A juror in the death penalty case for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz reports that she was threatened by another juror.

'At the same time of having that dread feeling, we are really glad to go back and bring this chapter to a close,' Smith stated.

According to court records the killer believes himself to be Edgar Thomas Hill, 'a noble person from the Thomas Clan of Wales.'

'The Alabama Department of Corrections verges somewhere between malpractice and butchery,' an attorney said.

Alan Eugene Miller, a triple murderer, is currently set for execution on Sept. 22 by lethal injection; however, he wants nitrogen to be used.