Each died violently – one by a knife, the other by a rope.Writer Mark Olson researched intensively to provide this retelling of murder and gallows justice. It involves the only execution ever in ...

A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows is based on a crude sketch ... Its graphic depiction of a slave in Surinam hanging by a single rib illustrates the general lack of compassion whites ...

SYRACUSE, Feb. 11.--Preparations for Owen Lindsay's execution at the Penitentiary were made yesterday afternoon. The gallows was the same which was used at the hanging of Fralich here, Ecker at ...

The hanging site would be free of all civilians. No person was allowed within hearing distance of the gallows; if Brown presented memorable last words, they would go unheard. One of the few ...

A series of botched executions has raised questions over whether more primitive methods may be the most effective way of ending someone's life.

Executions took place on public gallows in the middle of towns and cities, and often attracted crowds of hundreds of onlookers. Public punishment allowed the whole community to take revenge on the ...

“Gentlemen, you are witnessing an illegal hanging,” Williams said from the gallows, still insisting he was innocent. “I am accused of killing Johnny Keller. He was the best friend I ever had.

A former WWE Superstar who reinvented himself and achieved worldwide notoriety overseas, Luke Gallows returned to WWE to right some wrongs, and he brought a good brother with him. Along with Karl ...