South Carolina-based journalist Jeffrey Collins observed back-to-back executions in 2025 after the state revived the death penalty following a 13-year pause ...

One of the most famous executions in London's history took place a few hundred metres from the Gunpowder hangings. Testy monarch Charles I — son of James I, the target of the Gunpowder plotters — was ...

For those who are fascinated with Tudor history, Cambridgeshire is like heaven, filled to the brim with royal stories that took place all over the county. But one of the most fascinating and gruesome ...

The death penalty was abolished in Britain many years ago. But before the ultimate punishment was outlawed, it was not uncommon for criminals to be killed for their crimes. And it was no different in ...

WHEN John Grieg was hanged for murder in 1816, it was the start of a century-and-a-half of executions at Durham Jail. Executions in the form of hangings took place there from 1816 until 1958. Before ...