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**Mogadishu (AX) — An urgent situation unfolds in Saudi Arabia, where around 50 Somali citizens face capital punishment for alleged drug smuggling. Family members and Somali authorities are fervently seeking clemency, arguing for a reduction of sentences from the grim reality of execution to imprisonment. These individuals, mostly young, initially ventured to Saudi Arabia in search of employment opportunities. They were either coerced or misled into participating in drug trafficking across the Saudi border. Now, with the…

The Texas Supreme Court has delivered a last-minute halt to the execution of Robert Roberson, a man on the autism spectrum, whose conviction for murder stems from what his attorneys argue was a grave misdiagnosis related to "shaken baby syndrome." This 57-year-old man faced lethal injection at the state prison in Huntsville after being sentenced for the tragic death of his two-year-old daughter, Nikki, in February 2002. However, in a dramatic twist, the state's highest court intervened, granting a temporary stay following…

Alabama is gearing up to carry out the execution of Alan Miller, a convicted murderer, marking only the second instance of nitrogen asphyxiation as a method of capital punishment in the state. Alabama took the lead in this controversial approach back in January.

According to Ethiopian authorities, this particularly cruel video was recorded at the end of February in the area where the large Ethiopian Renaissance dam is located. It is about the killing of the civilian Tigrayan by soldiers of the Federal Army and…

The video of an extrajudicial execution scene arouses some emotion in Ethiopia. This can be a scene filmed by particular forces within the Oromiya area, the place a younger man is executed with out trial. He was accused of being a killer of the Oromo Liberation Military, described as a "terrorist" group by the federal government.…

In Mozambique's war-torn city of Palma, 12 people believed to be foreigners were found beheaded after a Daesh-alleged attack on the city, a local police chief told state television station TVM. The news comes when South African leaders will meet in Mozambique's capital Maputo on Thursday to discuss ways to respond to extremist rebels. The police chief, Pedro da Silva, told reporters visiting the city that he could not be sure of the nationalities of the 12 people, but he thought they were foreigners…