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The National Council of Resistance of Iran is staging a rally in New York City to protest state executions in the country, ahead of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's speech to the UN.
Among those expected to participate in the rally Monday are a bipartisan group of U.S. dignitaries, human rights advocates and former political prisoners.
A retired general says, amid allegations of atrocities, that the "Zero Units" were vital in clearing and keep control of the airport for the U.S.
Tennessee and Oklahoma carried out an execution within 30 minutes of each other, and Alabama executed an inmate six hours later.
The three death row inmates were executed by lethal injection in Alabama, Oklahoma and Tennessee.
Three men in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are scheduled for lethal injection Thursday in a rare convergence of executions on the same day in the U.S.
Three men in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are scheduled for lethal injection Thursday in a rare convergence of executions on the same day in the U.S.Open
According to Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, 109 prisoners in Iran were executed in June.
Human rights activists say the Iranian government has been rapidly escalating executions. The latest prompted public protest, videos appear to show.
In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace.