Omnipotent leaders may seem untouchable, but systems crack. From mass mobilisation to quiet non-compliance, discover how ...

The rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania, alongside his wife Elena, and the policies that led the country to extreme poverty ...

We often discuss how strongmen rise to power. In "How Tyrants Fall", Marcel Dirsus looks at the other side of the story ...

Pictured here: Nicolae Ceausescu addressing a rally a month ... He was subsequently captured and executed three days later, on Christmas Day, in Targoviste. About 1,200 people died and around ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man who killed an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother on a night in which he drank heavily and used drugs was executed Thursday evening. Prison officials said ...

PEOPLE OPPOSED TO THE DEATH SENTENCE GATHERED OUTSIDE OF THE PRISON THURSDAY NIGHT, SOME HOLDING SIGNS THAT SAID THINGS LIKE EXECUTION IS NOT THE SOLUTION. I WOULDN’T WANT FOR SOMEBODY ELSE’S SON.

A former Romanian prosecutor claims that the sound technology allegedly used in Belgrade last Saturday is a similar but more advanced version of the one used by the communist regime in the 1989 ...

A Florida man, found guilty of raping and murdering eight year old Toni Neuner before killing her grandmother, has been executed more than three decades after the crime. Edward James, 63 ...

PEOPLE OPPOSED TO THE DEATH SENTENCE GATHERED OUTSIDE OF THE PRISON THURSDAY NIGHT, SOME HOLDING SIGNS THAT SAID THINGS LIKE EXECUTION IS NOT THE SOLUTION. I WOULDN’T WANT FOR SOMEBODY ELSE’S SON.

Four Canadian nationals were executed in China on drug-related charges, according to Canadian authorities, in a rare case of the country carrying out the death penalty against Westerners.

China executed four Canadian nationals over drug charges earlier this year, prompting strong rebukes from the Western country amidst an already rocky relationship. It is unclear exactly when this ...

However, a firing squad execution has never been conducted in Mississippi's long history with the death penalty. The only methods that have been used to execute prisoners are hangings, the ...