For centuries, the quiet hill near the town of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt appeared nothing more than an open field where ...

This wasn't simply an execution site but rather a display platform where bodies were hung after being executed elsewhere in the city. The structure consisted of eight stone pillars supporting a timber ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in France have discovered the remains of a 16th-century gallows where bodies of the condemned were displayed after they were hanged. The corpses of the men — and a few women — were then ...

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 ...

Southampton once bore witness to a starker form of public life - the spectacle of public execution. From the heights of Southampton Common to the edge of the waterfront, these grim events, intended to ...