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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., has organized the first exhibition, through Oct. 14, devoted to Guillaume ...

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 ...