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 ...

That moment marked the start of the Romanian revolution in Bucharest. The next day, Ceausescu fled the capital. He was subsequently captured and executed three days later, on Christmas Day ...

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 ...

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.

RAIFORD, Fla. — A Seminole County murderer is expected to be executed on Thursday. Edward James killed a woman and her 8-year-old granddaughter back in 1993. His attorneys have appealed the ...

March 20 (UPI) --Oklahoma executed Wendell Grissom Thursday in the state's first execution of 2025. He was declared dead by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at 10:13 a.m ...

A Florida death row inmate is set to become the fourth man executed in the U.S. this week and the 10th so far this year. Edward Thomas James, 63, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on ...

STARKE, Fla. — 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 Edward ...

TORONTO — China executed four Canadians in recent months, Canada's foreign affairs minister said Wednesday. Such executions of Westerners are relatively rare. Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said ...