State-run news says Mohsen Shekari, accused of blocking street and attacking policeman with machete, was found guilty of 'waging war against God'

Frank Atwood, 66, put to death for the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl; state had purchased materials to make hydrogen cyanide gas, which was used by Nazis to kill Jews

Frank Atwood declined to pick a method for death sentence to be carried when asked by officials, so default of lethal injection to be administered

Outlawed by the state in 1992, the toxic gas employed by the Nazis at Auschwitz can still be used on those sentenced before the ban; Jewish leaders call it 'cruel and barbarous'

Justices agree to hear appeal filed by Trump administration, in a case that will test Biden's opposition to capital punishment