The incumbent president appears to have gone on a federal killing spree, executing more prisoners since he's been in power than all other state executions combined, making him responsible for more executions than any other modern president.

Iran has executed Rouhollah Zam, administrator of the notorious counterrevolutionary Telegram channel Amad News, who had been convicted of "corruption on earth".

The US government executes Brandon Bernard despite nationwide outcry and eleventh-hour appeals for court intervention.

15 of those executed had been sentenced to death in cases related to political violence following what Amnesty called unfair trials.

A new US execution rule, which goes into effect on December 24, gives the lame-duck president days before Joe Biden takes office.

The Trump administration is reportedly trying to resume the use of firing squads in federal executions.

Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi Arabia to stop the imminent execution of eight men charged with protest-related crimes, some of which they allegedly committed as children.

Lisa Montgomery is set to be put to death by lethal injection on December 8, the first federal execution of a woman since 1953.

The United States executes the only Native American on federal death row against the wishes of the Navajo Nation, which accuses the US government of violating tribal sovereignty.

The US Justice Department on Wednesday set Aug. 26 as the execution date for a convicted killer in what would be the fourth federal execution this summer.