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Tragic End for Young Criminals: The LeBlanc Brothers Executed in Lafayette

In Lafayette, Louisiana, a grim chapter closed with the execution of Alexis and Earnest LeBlanc, two young French brothers who modeled their lives after the…

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Grisly Execution of Five Cubans: Public Garrote Deaths Marred by Horrific Bungling

I’ve written about the garrote as a form of capital punishment in the past and felt compelled to share this latest find in the newspaper…

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Last Hours with Doomed Murderers – A Look at Death Row Inmates in Nebraska 1921

How did Nebraskan inmates meet their end in the early 1900s? The article below, originally published in 1921, gives readers an in-depth look at the…

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Iron Crown Torture

Scottish nobleman, Walter Stewart, was believed to have wanted the crown of King James I of Scotland for himself, but when he was found complicit…

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Crushing Necks with the Halifax Gibbet

The story of the Halifax Gibbet begins and ends in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. The little town had its humble beginnings in sheep farming. Eventually,…

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US Lethal Gas Executions

Most of us have heard stories about hangings in the Old West, the firing squads in Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Utah, the electric chair, and the…

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The Automatic Gallows of Colorado and Connecticut

Before 1889, Colorado hangings were public and gruesome. Those condemned to die by hanging sometimes twitched and kicked about on the end of a rope…

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17 Brutal Laws of the Code of Hammurabi

Hammurabi was a Babylonian king who ruled from 1792 to 1750 B.C. The king put together a written set of legal code that contained 282…

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Germany’s Axe and Block Executions – Early 20th Century

The gory details of the executions were never published in the German press and it was illegal in Germany to take photographs of executioners. For…

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Gory Descriptions of European Executions in the Late 1800s

We don’t have to go far into European history to find torture and brutal executions that rival anything seen on Game of Thrones. The article…

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