SOME of the world's most brutal execution methods are still in use for those who commit the most severe and unforgivable crimes. Whether it's death by "long drop" hanging, being vapourised by ...
As four death row inmates in the US face potential executions by the electric chair and firing squad, one doctor has warned that the lethal injection is not such a calm way to go as it seems. The four ...
The lethal injection brought an end to the macabre executions of the past. But after a string of botched deaths, its humanity is being brought into question. Is there another option? Warning: This ...
A US state is set to bring in a grisly new method of execution that starves Death Row inmates of oxygen, but there are major flaws in the plan. Alabama wants prisoners facing the death penalty to ...
Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk this week. The Idaho Senate passed the bill on Wednesday, and it will take effect next ...
The dramatic uptick of capital punishment in recent years, and the brutality of methods still used around the world, has thrust state-sanctioned executions back into the spotlight. China's murky ...
Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith was put to death Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, marking the nation’s first known execution using that method. Now Alabama’s attorney general wants to help other ...
South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on ...
So said Ralph Menzies upon being sentenced to death in 1988 and asked which method of execution he preferred. Having since spent nearly four decades on Utah's death row, the 67-year-old murder convict ...
Known as 'death by a thousand cuts' or 'slow slicing', this chilling method of execution was used in China, and the name barely scratches the surface of the horrors it entailed. Until its prohibition ...
It's been considered one of the worst execution methods in history, but what exactly is the Viking 'blood eagle' and was it actually real? It doesn't take a genius to deduce that medieval torture ...
There was an increased use of capital punishment from the 17th century. This corresponded with a rise in the crime rate, especially for crimes against property. Increasing the number of offences that ...
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