[http://youtu.be/Y1uwsqT2Kkc] (YouTube link)150 ye...  ...U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. It was the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Of the 392 prisoners of war who...  ...led to a scaffold specially constructed for their execution . One had been given a reprieve at the last minute...  ...their faces. Drumbeats...

Jody Enders wrote in 1998 about a 1878 French acco...  ...performed in 1549, in which the dramatic onstage execution was no special effect, but used a condemned priso...

Joe Arridy was convicted of the vicius rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl from a prominent family in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1936. He was sentenced to be executed for the crime, to which he confessed.Joe Arridy didn't as...

Ancient Arab swords. Note that some designs were m...  ...from the point of view of the changing methods of executions , a point of view that has never been studied befo...  ...st tree-less environment explains the use of this execution method. Arabs in the nearby sandy deserts of Saud...  ...mes free of charge,...

The sad truth about witches is that you don't have to be one -or even believe in them- to be executed for witchcraft. Read about eight women in history who each paid the price for what others thought she was doing. Some,...

Human beings seemingly really enjoy getting crea...  ...elty, as these (mostly) out of fashion methods of execution illustrate, including the Spanish Tickler: Used...

As long as there have been criminals, there...  ...doesn't go back that far.)A wood engraving of an execution by elephant published in the 1868 issue of Le Tou...  ...a)Although forever associated with one particular execution , crucifixion was the capital punishment method o...  ...irca the 13th century C.E.)S...