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

Three sources have told Rolling Stone magazine that “the former U.S. president has reportedly asked his advisers about the ...

Lynchings were frequently committed with the most flagrant public display. Like executions by guillotine in medieval times, lynchings were often advertised in newspapers and drew large crowds of ...

A guillotine has fetched €8,008 (£7080) at a controversial auction in Paris. The 150-year-old replica of a device used for executions was bought on Wednesday by a French millionaire and ...

Texas has no problem sentencing a criminal to death if the nature of the crime calls for it. This sentence is usually ...

According to historical sources, Robespierre was soon corrupted by power and was executed by guillotine as well. King Leopold II "founded" the Congo Free State as "his own" private colony ...

The Viet Minh kicked off the network, when it was a sort of southern gateway to the Ho Chi Minh trail in the 1940s as the ...

And the truth is… this is fake news! Well, kind of. The "real" aliens aren't made of cake. The corpses were scanned by an expert who said that they each contain skeletons, although this has yet ...

Now that the state of South Carolina has three court-approved methods that a condemned convict can choose from to meet his maker, it’s curious lawmakers didn’t consider a tried-and-true method ...

In 1857, after seeing a public execution by guillotine in Paris, he became a convinced opponent of the state and its laws, believing that governments were not only brutal, but essentially served ...