They are some of the country's most notorious killers and their crimes shocked the world. Here are their last meals before ...

The guillotine was last used to behead a convict in 1977. France abolished the death penalty in 1981. The replica, which has a few dents on the blade, was once on display at a museum of torture in ...

Hailed as the “foremother of feminism”, Mary Wollstonecraft shook up 18th-century Britain with her barnstorming treatises on ...

Although it is an unlikely weapon, the “flying guillotine” was a big hit with martial arts fans when it featured in the eponymous film The Flying Guillotine in 1975. The gruesome invention ...

The death penalty is sought in only a fraction ... On a cold, wet November morning in 1972, Roger Bontems was marched to the ...

A model guillotine has been saved from the chop after it was taken to a recycling centre in Grimsby. The wooden structure, which has a blade splattered with fake blood, is one of a number of ...

An exhibition in Berlin pays tribute to the small acts of resistance by anonymous individuals of various social classes and ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

Death at the Sign of the Rook is an expansive novel that pokes fun of baroque, classic murder mysteries — but also delivers a fully satisfying, all-the-pieces-click-together ending.

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