Executions! Yay!
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australian executed in Singapore
Nguyen Tuong Van, 25, of Vietnamese descent, was hanged at Changi prison despite repeated pleas for clemency from the Australian government.
He was convicted three years ago of carrying nearly 400g (14 ounces) of heroin at Singapore airport while travelling from Cambodia to Australia.
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Kenneth Boyd, a convicted killer, was put to death by lethal injection in North Carolina for the murder of his estranged wife and her father in 1988.
He was given three drugs - one to put him to sleep, another to paralyse him, and a third to stop his heart.
Boyd, 57, has said the death penalty is “nothing but revenge”. Relatives of his victims say he deserves to die.