On the morning of Feb. 9, India-administered Kashmir woke up to deserted streets. There were no newspapers to be bought that Saturday morning — no television, no Internet. Streets throughout the ...

Far more than just a method of execution, hanging and gibbeting in the medieval world were designed to inflict lasting pain and public shame. While hanging could be swift, gibbeting often left the ...

The Supreme Court is listening to a proposal to give convicts on death row an option of choosing lethal injection as an alternative to death by hanging as a mode of execution.

If any event in Iraq should have been completely under the control of U.S. forces and the government they defend, it was the final moments of condemned former dictator Saddam Hussein. Unfortunately, ...

Alabama officials executed a convicted killer Jan. 25, becoming the first state to use nitrogen hypoxia. The execution took about 22 minutes. Executions are nothing new in the United States or across ...

Guy Fawkes was sentenced to death for his role in the Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to kill James I of England, members of the royal family and government officials. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons ...

Ajmal Kasab, the terrorist whose boyish face came to embody the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was hanged in the western Indian city of Pune early morning on Wednesday, just a week before the four-year ...

The busiest death chamber in the country is located inside the maximum-security prison in Huntsville, Texas, known as the ...

The first person to be executed for violation of the Lindbergh kidnapping law died on a gallows in 1936 at the state penitentiary at McAlester. It was the only hanging ever at the prison. Arthur Gooch ...