Iran Executes Wrestler After He Participated in Anti-Government Protests
Aaron Bandler
September 14, 2020
Many had pleaded with Iran to not execute him.
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Hamas executes 6 suspected Israel collaborators
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2012
Masked gunmen publicly shot dead six suspected collaborators with Israel in a large Gaza City intersection Tuesday, witnesses said.
Iran executed Jewish woman and her husband, State Dept. says [UPDATE]
Jewish Journal
May 12, 2011
A Jewish woman and her Armenian Christian husband were executed in Iran for undisclosed reasons, a top State Department official said. Michael Posner, the assistant secretary of state for human rights, testified Wednesday at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Iran\’s human rights.
Yemeni Jews protest execution delay
Jewish Journal
June 29, 2010
Yemeni Jews demanded an end to the delay in the execution of a Yemeni man sentenced to death for killing a Jewish man.
Iran gets away with murder
Jewish Journal
August 28, 2008
In the summer of 1988, Iran put thousands of political prisoners to death after a desperate cease-fire agreement was reached to end the 1980-1988 war with Iraq.
Sacco, Vanzetti and the Not-So-Great United States
Tom Tugend
April 6, 2007
Exactly 80 years after Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were sentenced to death in Boston on April 9, 1927, a documentary on the trial that shook the world is opening in American theaters.\n
Nation & World Briefs
David Finnigan
December 15, 2005
Jews React to Williams\’ Execution
Way Cleared for Payments to Austrian Holocaust Survivors
Jackson Seeks Retraction of Anti-Israel Remarks by Iran
In the eyes of American and Torah laws, Williams should die for his heinous crimes.
Larry Greenfield
November 10, 2005
In the case of the People v. Williams, the facts are quite clear. A jury convicted Stanley Tookie Williams of the execution-style murder of 23-year-old Albert Owens during a robbery of a 7-Eleven store in Whittier. The jury also convicted him of murdering the owners of a Los Angeles motel, Tsai-Shai Yang, 62, and Yen-I Yang, 65, and their 42-year-old daughter, Yee Chen Lin, in the course of a robbery two weeks later. The American justice system has been patient and thorough, and its verdict is clear: It is legal, proper and high time that Williams should die.
Was Berg Targeted for Being a Jew?
Joe Berkofsky
May 13, 2004
The execution of American Jewish civilian Nicholas Berg by Iraqi extremests for being a Jew.
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