A replica of a 13th Century execution device, which was an early type of guillotine, is to be replaced 50 years after it was ...

We often visualize history as a sequence of evenly spaced events on a timeline, where one era wraps up entirely before the ...

Crucifixion, boiling, cannon fire, New York studied them all in 1887 while searching for a “humane” execution. The answer ...

New York State once appointed three men to evaluate every possible way to execute a man—which they did in disturbing detail.

Patrick Williams left his imprint on the Ultimate Fighting Championship record book when he choked Alejandro Perez unconscious at UFC 188.

Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network’s Death Penalty Abolition Program. It is Emmjolee Mendoza Waters. The correct ...

WASHINGTON − Justice Sonia Sotomayor called Florida’s record on lethal injections “deeply troubling,” even as she joined the Supreme Court’s Feb. 24 decision clearing the way for the state’s latest ...

Students at a prestigious university in the United Kingdom recently unearthed a likely execution pit on the outskirts of town — dating back 1,200 years. The University of Cambridge announced the ...

In my experience as an executive coach working with leadership teams, it is as crucial as it is unusual for assessment of operational alignment to be done. Unless leaders are willing to tell the truth ...

One half of “The Typewriter and the Guillotine” is compelling, and it’s probably not the half you’d think. “The Typewriter” part of Mark Braude’s account of midcentury Paris is the better part (and it ...

Florida's first execution of 2026 was carried out on Ronald Palmer Heath, who was convicted of a 1989 murder. Heath was pronounced dead by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his ...

Death penalty illustration by Kagenmi via iStock for WMNF News. Ronald Heath was executed yesterday. Heath’s death warrant was signed on Jan. 9 by Gov. Ron DeSantis. He then filed an appeal with the ...