History’s cruelest punishments exposed humanity’s darkest instincts. These brutal methods were designed to torture, terrify, ...

Burton Van Wormer led the way and all four began ... awful tragedy enacted almost within his hearing. The simultaneous execution of three brothers is not unprecedented in the history of New ...

China’s execution of four Canadians has put the spotlight on its “conveyor belt” process where “mobile death vans” are said to be used due to high numbers being killed. Canada reacted ...

For the first time in seven years, Ohio executed a Cincinnati killer. Convicted murderer Robert Van Hook was pronounced dead at 10:44 a.m. Wednesday. His death came more than 30 years after he ...

Van Hook's execution took place 33 years after he stabbed a man to death in a Cincinnati apartment. He nearly disemboweled the 25-year-old victim, David Self, after the two met at a Downtown ...

Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was executed by lethal injection in Alabama for the 1998 murder of a delivery van driver - Copyright Alabama Department of Corrections/AFP ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A man convicted of killing two women, one in Florida and another in Van Nuys, has been scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed Tuesday, April 15 ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing two women, one in Florida and another in Van Nuys, has been scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed Tuesday ...