A Florida man convicted of murdering two women he hired for sex was put to death by lethal injection yesterday, one of four executions to be carried out in the United States this week. Samuel Smithers, 72, was sentenced to death in 1999 for the 1996 killings of Christy Cowan and Denise Roach in Tampa. […]
•Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Saudi authorities put two people to death Monday to reach 17 in three days, state media said, as the conservative kingdom accelerated towards a record number of executions this year. Two Saudis were executed for “terrorist crimes”, the official Saudi Press Agency said, after 15 people, mostly foreigners, were p...

