Hangman John Ellis later recalled how Crippen smiled as the hood was placed over his head. At the start of 2020, a descendent of Crippen asked for his remains to be exhumed from the grounds of ...

Raul Gomez-Garcia already has cheated the hangman. Now, the convicted cop killer ... was a sworn member of the notorious MS-13 gang — he even had the number 13 carved into his hair during ...

On the gallows, the hangman at Pentonville prison in London pulled the lever. The slack rope snapped tight and one of the most notorious killers of the 20th century was dead. In her lodgings just ...

True Grit, No Country for Old Men, and Django Unchained are all among the best Western movies of the last 30 years.

[1] The most notorious death execution in BC was about ... The execution was botched when the hangman misjudged the drop and Mrs. Dugan’s head was ripped from her body. More states converted ...

It's a grim place, with grizzly past, where until a little over 60 years ago some of Scotland's most notorious criminals met their end at the hands of the hangman. From the first execution at ...

ON this day in 1739, the infamous highwayman Richard “Dick” Turpin was publicly hanged at Knavesmire, York.  If you’ve heard ...

(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) The California Supreme Court overturned the death penalty conviction of one of L.A.'s most notorious gang figures Thursday, saying a juror who likely would have ...

When it comes to the legacy of the Notorious B.I.G., prepare for even more Biggie. According to a new report in The Wall Street Journal, Biggie’s estate has teamed up with Primary Wave ...

Beggars are fast becoming our most notorious export, going abroad to ask for alms while bringing disrepute to the country and indirectly creating hurdles for hard-working youngsters who want to ...