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

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 ...

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 ...

Riding a big crescendo of enthusiasm generated by record-breaking crowds at the Vancouver Arts & Music Festival, the ...

62.2 x 51.4 x 51.4 cm. (24.5 x 20.2 x 20.2 in.) ...

Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance is insurance—usually added as a rider to a health or life insurance policy—that covers the unintentional death or dismemberment of the insured.

Human beings are not hogs fit to be slaughtered by other human beings. The first — and the last — time Alabama gassed a man ...

125 x 106 x 103.5 cm. (49.2 x 41.7 x 40.7 in.) ...

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

Death at the Sign of the Rook is an expansive novel that pokes fun of baroque, classic murder mysteries — but also delivers a ...

[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 by firing squad is the quickest mode of death, although the guillotine would probably be even quicker. Does it matter? Maybe some on death row prefer to choose their means of death.