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

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 ...

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 ...

What is known about the First Republic, the political regime founded during the Revolution that governed France from 1792 to ...

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 ...

IN LIGHT OF SOUTH CAROLINA SETTING THE DATE FOR THE FIRST EXECUTION IN OVER ... lethal injection. His last meal consisted of pizza, fried fish, popcorn shrimp, french fries, cherry cheesecake ...

Revolutionary Tribunal and execution by the guillotine of a royalist, Louis Collenot d'Angremont (fr). August 22: The Paris Commune orders that persons henceforth ...

(Photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette) COLUMBIA — Freddie Owens was executed Friday evening by lethal injection, after his attorneys’ last-chance appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court failed to stop ...

20, 2024. (Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette) COLUMBIA — Freddie Owens was executed Friday evening by lethal injection, after his attorneys’ last-chance appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court failed ...

Owens' last-ditch appeals were repeatedly denied, including by a federal court Friday morning. Owens also petitioned for a stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court. South Carolina's governor ...

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

2.1. In order to put an end to the excess of the Reign of Terror, the National Convention voted to execute Robespierre and several other leading members of the Terror ...