Kim Jong Un is said to have executed a general by tossing him into a tank filled with piranhas. The unidentified general, who was accused of plotting a coup, is believed to be among the victims of ...

A triple murderer was killed by firing squad in a gruesome execution on death row last night. Stephen Bryant, 44, opted for the grisly method, rather than the lethal injection or the electric chair, ...

Since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment with its 1976 ruling in Gregg v. Georgia, the United States has put more than 1,600 of its citizens to death. The two executions carried out in ...

Hamas defended the gruesome public executions it carried out against Palestinians earlier this week as the terrorist group says it has no plans to lay down its arms — throwing a massive wrench into ...

A man convicted of killing his common-law wife while police were outside the home in 2003 is set to be executed on Aug. 13 ...

A child killer who has spent 15 years on federal death row faces execution in January after the U.S. government reinstated the death penalty last month — ending a hiatus that began a year after truck ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harrowing video shows the gruesome scene where Hamas carried out mass public executions in Gaza on Monday, just hours after ...

‘Excessive’ Qatari involvement in Gaza will ‘collapse’ the president’s 20-point plan, one Riyadh official says.

Known as 'death by a thousand cuts' or 'slow slicing', this chilling method of execution was used in China, and the name barely scratches the surface of the horrors it entailed. Until its prohibition ...