The next time people want to rail against America for being such a terrible and oppressive place, perhaps they should take a quick romp around the globe.

'Inmate Billy Ray Irick, 59, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection Thursday evening at a maximum-security prison in Nashville.'

State Attorney General Jeff Landry is calling on the governor to support amendments that would allow executions to resume.

According to the UK Express, the execution was about to occur after Islamic State group forces had marched into a Syrian town along the Turkish border.