Often considered Scotland’s worst serial killer, Peter Manuel’s crimes began in January 1956.

DURING THE 12 years in which he researched his “History of the Town of Goffstown 1733-1920,” George Plummer Hadley set aside ...

Elizabeth was the first and only woman executed in Nevada so far. Another woman, Priscilla Joyce Ford, was on death row in the state but escaped execution after she died in custody on January 29, 2005 ...

David Rudenstine, the Sheldon H. Solow Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, argues that press freedoms are at risk ...

when they were replaced with moving gallows, and the official place of execution for felons was moved to Newgate Prison. This did not please the people of London at all, as they had always considered ...

Brian D Stott correctly draws attention to the public information sign. It tells that the name “derives from resembling a hanging gallows.” But there were no gallows there, so there is no history to ...

Ruth seemed determined to face the gallows. Her solicitor ... Yet A Cruel Love is not really about murder and hanging. It’s about obsessive desire, and the consequences when it all goes ...

Ruth Ellis was the last woman in Britain to be hanged, and when she was executed in 1955 she left behind two children who were both tormented by being associated with their mother ...

In just 13 words, Ruth Ellis has ensured her name will soon be entered into hangman Albert Pierrepoint ... client’s determination to go to the gallows. People campaigned on Ruth’s behalf ...

Six former National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM) students dodged the hangman’s noose over the 2017 death of navy cadet officer Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain. A three-person Federal Court ...