Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the Lansing Historical Society and Museum began offering tours of the decommissioned Kansas State Penitentiary last year, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 24—MIDDLEBURG — A macabre 19th century historical artifact beckons to visitors of the Snyder County Historical Society in ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Escaped convict "Terrible" Tommy O'Connor can rest a little easier. The warped wooden gallows used more than a century ago to hang convicts in Chicago, beginning with those ...

The first person to be executed for violation of the Lindbergh kidnapping law died on a gallows in 1936 at the state penitentiary at McAlester. It was the only hanging ever at the prison. Arthur Gooch ...

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 case ...