Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the Lansing Historical Society and Museum began offering tours of the decommissioned Kansas State Penitentiary last year, the ...

Testimony emerges from Babak Alipour, who spent three years on death row before being taken to gallows in March ...

French authorities announced a chilling discovery: They found a 16th-century gallows where condemned prisoners were put on display as a warning to others. The discovery, which was made in 2024 but not ...

Thomas Duffy, James Carroll, James Roarity, James Boyle, Hugh McGeehan and Thomas Munley were hanged in the courtyard of the Schuylkill County Prison on June 21, 1877, Black Thursday. John J. Kehoe ...

ST. LOUIS — More than eight decades since bootlegging gangster Charlie Birger became Illinois’ last person publicly hanged, the southern Illinois city that has clung to his legend finally has the case ...

Deathbed words have long garnered public attention, scratching that morbid itch of knowing how famous, or infamous, people used their final breaths to leave their lasting impression on the world ...