On this day in history, the US carried out its first execution by lethal injection — a method thought up by one doctor.

The historical and archeological record upends the widespread belief that long-term incarceration belongs to the modern state ...

At 7 p.m. Saturday his three hunting partners called the Coast Guard after searching for him and he didn’t show up at camp. By 1:45 a.m. a Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter had landed the search party on ...

The family of a Colombian fisherman has filed a formal complaint over a death attributed to a U.S. military strike on a boat ...

Whether by quirk of fate or politics, or that of an incumbent military chief, Pakistan’s Prime Ministers have never been able ...

The 23-year-old man who admitted desecrating the tomb a few hours before the former French justice minister's entry into the Panthéon on 9 October was sentenced on Wednesday by the Nanterre court.View ...

Although our history books are filled to the brim with the names of men who helped lead globally consequential revolutions, ...

Rosario Dawson returns as Ahsoka Tano to lead her own show, expanding the Star Wars timeline by delving further into the ...

Robert Stirm's family reunion at Travis Air Force Base - immortalized in a Pulitzer-winning photo - masked the painful ...

An Indiana lawmaker is moving forward with legislation that would authorize execution by firing squad under limited circumstances, expanding the methods available for carrying out capital punishment ...

2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine publisher and acclaimed independent multimedia studio, Rebellion, has launched new officially ...

Woodstock lost one of its great champions on Saturday, November 22, when — a few weeks shy of 88 — Douglas Craig James: musician, collector, lover of the arts, and increasingly reclusive ...