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

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 ...

Ritchie was executed at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan ... Bill Toney in the neck while he was running from a stolen van. The US Supreme Court denied Ritchie’s petition to stay the ...

Ritchie, who was 20-years-old at the time, stole a van with others in Beech Grove ... recommendation from the State Parole Board that his execution proceeded as scheduled. Today, Ritchie's ...