Penenden Heath is now a "nice country park" in Kent, but the land has a "dark history". Tour guide and amateur historian Shane Waterman told Secret Kent that executions took place at the site from at ...

The history of capital punishment in Indiana is long, twisting and beset by problems. The process that led to the early-morning Oct. 10 execution of Roy Lee Ward at the Indiana State Prison in ...

When the history of Florida’s modern era of capital punishment is written, 2025 will be marked as a year that saw an unprecedented embrace of the death penalty. The state executed 19 prisoners this ...

The United States has seen a dramatic acceleration in state-sanctioned killings this year, reaching a total of 46 executions so far in 2025, a level not witnessed in more than a decade. This figure ...

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...

Capital punishment remains legal throughout much of the United States. However, the form of execution does vary. These are several methods of execution that remain legal in the United States.

On Oct. 15, Florida executed William Happ, a man who most agreed deserved little sympathy. Happ kidnapped 21-year-old Angela Crowley in 1986 from outside a convenience store in Crystal River and raped ...

Discover the grisly history of HMP Dorchester, from packed public hangings outside the prison gates to its last executions in the 20th century and the lives it held within its grim walls.