Melvin Trotter was executed by lethal injection for the 1986 murder of 70-year-old Virgie Langford, a mother of four on the verge of retirement.

Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in ...

This episode examines one of the most infamous torture methods associated with the Middle Ages, placing it within its ...

Archaeology students from the University of Cambridge have uncovered a Viking-era mass grave at Wandlebury Country Park in Cambridgeshire, with the remains of at least 10 individuals packed into a ...

On the latest instalment of the Daily Mail's Queens, Kings and Dastardly Things podcast, Robert Hardman and Kate Williams try to separate fact from fiction in the tragic reign of Edward II.

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...

They've hung him upside down like a slab of meat. Stripped to his underwear. Arms bound tight with tape. Ankles lashed to a tree trunk in the open winter air.

INDIANAPOLIS (WNDU) - A bill that would have added firing squads as an execution method in Indiana failed in the state house with a 48-47 vote, falling short of the 51 votes needed to pass. Nineteen ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in the House on Wednesday, falling three votes short of the required constitutional majority. The legislation ...

A bill expanding Indiana’s execution methods was significantly amended Tuesday after lawmakers voted to remove nitrogen hypoxia as an option and added provisions on media access and mental health ...

Indiana lawmakers approved several changes Tuesday to a bill expanding execution methods, which is now pending a full House vote. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool) A bill expanding Indiana’s execution ...

INDIANAPOLIS (INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in the House on Wednesday, falling three votes short of the required constitutional ...