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 ...

ST. LOUIS -- More than eight decades since bootlegging gangster Charlie Birger became Illinois' last person publicly hanged, the southern Illinois city that has clung to his legend finally has the ...

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 ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called on "sanctuary politicians" to "tone down their rhetoric" against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers following the emergence of a ...

On a summer day in 1809, Susanna Cox, a 24-year-old servant at an Oley Valley farm, was hanged from the gallows in front of a crowd in Reading’s City Park. On Monday, she was hanged again, but this ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Stairway at the Gothic Hanging Jail in ...

BENTON (WSIL) -- The Historic Jail Museum in Benton, has modified one of its prominent historical exhibits. The noose, and wooden cross members above it, were removed from the gallows outside the ...

STE-GENEVIÈVE - A Halloween display of politicians hanging from gallows has been taken down from a home in southern Manitoba and police say there will be no charges. The Rural Municipality of Taché ...