Bangladesh's deadliest executioner, who hanged criminals, including serial killers, has died a year after his release from prison. Shahjahan Bhuiyan, 74, was rushed to Dhaka’s Suhrawardy hospital ...

The man who was once Malaysia’s ‘number one executioner’ (pictured) has explained how an Australian grandmother convicted of drug trafficking will die An Australian grandmother will be given just ...

The package up for auction includes an execution diary, rare photos and plaster casts of his face and hands taken after his death. Boldon Auction Galleries Limited An execution diary kept by Britain’s ...

But the man who was finally accepted for the role of hangman in Sri Lanka’s prison system got cold feet after just one week when he saw the gallows for the first time. The hangman was so distressed he ...

MEERUT, India — Ten times, Mammu Singh has tightened the noose around a condemned man’s neck, pulled the trapdoor’s iron lever and watched the prisoner drop, and this is the thanks he gets. The ...

A person wishing to remain anonymous today offered the Isael Government his services as hangman, prepared to carry out executions which so far could not be carried out because nobody had applied for ...

lowing in the footsteps of his father and uncle before him, Albert Pierrepoint joins the 'family business' in 1934. He rises through the ranks to become the most feared and respected executioner in ...