ST. LOUIS -- More than eight decades since bootlegging gangster Charlie Birger became Illinois' last person publicly hanged, the southern Illinois city that has clung to his legend finally has the ...

When the Lansing Historical Society and Museum began offering tours of the decommissioned Kansas State Penitentiary last year, the historic prison was missing an important piece that could help drive ...

The first person to be executed for violation of the Lindbergh kidnapping law died on a gallows in 1936 at the state penitentiary at McAlester. It was the only hanging ever at the prison. Arthur Gooch ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Stairway at the Gothic Hanging Jail in ...

A Halloween display in a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, is fueling outrage after video captured mannequins wearing red hats staged in what appears to be an execution scene. The display — located in ...

Pity James Linzi. A Doylestown barber distressed over losing his job, he wrote a suicide note, shot his pregnant wife, Ida, then turned the gun on himself. Though Ida died, Linzi didn’t. He was rushed ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Escaped convict "Terrible" Tommy O'Connor can rest a little easier. The warped wooden gallows used more than a century ago to hang convicts in Chicago, beginning with those ...