Archaeologists unearthed an execution site in Grenoble, France, where condemned individuals were killed and later displayed in public.

This wasn't simply an execution site but rather a display platform where bodies were hung after being executed elsewhere in the city. The structure consisted of eight stone pillars supporting a timber ...

A Halloween display in a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, is fueling outrage after video captured mannequins wearing red hats staged in what appears to be an execution scene. The display — located in ...

GRENOBLE, FRANCE—Live Science reports that traces of sixteenth-century gallows and 10 burial pits have been uncovered in southeastern France by researchers from the French National Institute of ...

I’d never heard of the “upright jerker” until I read Amanda Howard’s book, Rope: A History of the Hanged. According to her research, this device, based on a series of weights and pulleys, was used ...

The information below originally appeared in the Nevada State Journal on Aug. 15, 1954. Three years and five trials after the discovery of I.N. Sharp's dismembered body near Rabbithole sulphur mines ...

For centuries, the quiet hill near the town of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt appeared nothing more than an open field where ...

In just 14 and a half months, under President Masoud Pezeshkian, the Iranian regime has executed over 2,000 people. Let that sink in. Over two thousand lives snuffed out by hanging, often in secret, ...

Parents of slain teen removed the noose from killer's neck. The mother, right, of Abdolah Hosseinzadeh, who was murdered in 2007, removes the noose with the help of her husband from around the neck of ...