The execution of 51-year-old Kimberly McCarthy is scheduled to take place on Tuesday evening, and if the sentence is carried out, will be the first female since September of 2010 to be put to death.
Although Russia has been the chief supplier for the Assad regime for years and years, and has vetoed U.N. Security resolutions condemning the Assad regime time and again, that country says now that they never supported the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Fiery rhetoric continues to come out of North Korea for the third day since the United Nations resolution condemning that country's December 12th rocket launch.