The man who was once Malaysia’s ‘number one executioner’ (pictured) has explained how an Australian grandmother convicted of drug trafficking will die An Australian grandmother will be given just ...

The package up for auction includes an execution diary, rare photos and plaster casts of his face and hands taken after his death. Boldon Auction Galleries Limited An execution diary kept by Britain’s ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Wanted: A hangman. High school education required. No experience necessary. Zimbabwe’s last executioner retired after carrying out his last execution in 2004. The departure of the ...

After seeing the documentary film “The Hangman,” screening November 15 at the U.K. Jewish Film Festival, it is hard not to think of Shalom Nagar as the Forrest Gump of Israel. Like the character ...

Today on Trailers from Hell, the always-erudite Brian Trenchard-Smith introduces 2007’s executioner drama "Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman," starring Timothy Spall, an Oscar hopeful this year in "Mr.

MEERUT, India — Ten times, Mammu Singh has tightened the noose around a condemned man’s neck, pulled the trapdoor’s iron lever and watched the prisoner drop, and this is the thanks he gets. The ...

The death penalty was abolished in Britain back in 1965, but up until a few years before the last hangmen were still at work in Her Majesty’s Prison Service. One of these and probably the most ...

Shalom Nagar, who was a reluctant 23-year-old Israeli prison guard when he was chosen to hang Adolf Eichmann -- the fugitive Nazi war criminal convicted of crimes against humanity and genocide, in the ...

The request was made in a letter by John William Hardbattle, a 26-year-old marine fireman, to the Sheriff of Hull in 1910 Discovery: The letter was found hidden behind a photo of the former Sheriff of ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka, intent on reviving the death penalty after a 42-year moratorium, first has to find a hangman. To that end, the government has placed advertisements in local newspapers, ...