In a poem prefacing the 1623 First Folio, playwright Ben Jonson describes Shakespeare as “not of an age, but for all time”.

Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution.

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Public executions were a grim but powerful part of life in medieval London. In this video, we uncover how and why they were carried out, where they took place, and what they meant for the people who ...

Lethal injection is tainted with error, ineptitude and secrecy that's led to many botched executions and unnecessary ...

Starring Russell Crowe as the high-ranking Nazi and Rami Malek as Army officer Douglas M. Kelley, the film dramatizes the ...

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F or sale: one barbaric torture device that could date back to medieval times. The wooden back-to-back interrogation chairs ...