Hanging

Burning body found hanging from tree in LA park

Burning body dangling from tree discovered near Los Angeles Zoo by passerby who alerted authorities.

Jailed terrorist hangs himself in Israeli prison, but PA ministers tasked with funding imprisoned terrorists claim 'foul play.'

Report finds execution up 15% last year due to Iran's heavy-handed killing, despite general trend against execution.

Iranian prisoner tries to fight off hangmen at public hanging, after last request to say goodbye to mother in audience denied.

After Amnesty report reveals two people executed every day so far this year, UN calls on Tehran to curb the killings.

Hamas-run military court sentences a man to death by hanging after finding him guilty collaborating with Israeli authorities.

Sixteen Baloch rebels have been hanged in Iran in retaliation for the deaths of border guards in an ambush.

Iranian court rules that Alireza M, who survived a previous hanging, will not undergo execution for a second time.

A 37-year-old Iranian was convicted of smuggling drugs, hanged, pronounced dead and survived. What happens now?

Hamas hangs two men who were convicted ten years of ago of collaborating with "the occupation".

A PA Arab found guilty of "collaborating" with Israel has been sentenced to death by a military court in Gaza.

Iran has hanged seven men, six of them for drug trafficking and another for rape, in prison in the central province of Isfahan.

Amnesty International report: Iran put to death more than twice as many people in 2011 as it did the year before.