Depending on where you live, corporal punishment—the practice of school administrators, staffers, or teachers subjecting students to physical punishment—may seem like it belongs in a bygone era. But ...

Milestones in capital punishment in Texas: 1819 – George Brown is first person executed in Texas, by hanging. 1863 – Chipita Rodriguez is first woman executed in Texas, by hanging. 1923 – Lee Nathan ...

Maryland has been engaged in capital punishment for more than 200 years – first by hanging, then a gas chamber and finally by lethal injection. The earliest recorded execution in the state took place ...

On the September night that the state of Georgia put Troy Davis to death, a crowd of several hundred gathered at the Supreme Court in Washington to protest America’s continued practice of capital ...

Journalist Mikhail Zygar says a lot of Russian historians were actually propagandists – they worked for people in power and wrote recorded events the way politicians and elites wanted. In his new book ...

A Comprehensive Look at America's Most Controversial Punishment The death penalty in the United States is as old as the country itself, with roots to the original European settlements. During this ...

In 1904, a violent mob set upon the jail in the city of Huntsville, Alabama, occupying the first floor and demanding the jailors release Horace Maples, a Black man accused of killing an elderly white ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- If you're looking to get out of the house this summer and go back in time, consider a visit to Henricus Historical Park. The park sits on about five acres of land in Chesterfield ...

Whenever brutal murders happen in Iowa, there's often a call for a return to capital punishment. The ambush slayings of Des Moines Police Sgt. Tony Beminio and Urbandale Police Officer Justin Martin ...

Three scholars of Indian criminal law presented archival research on the history of punishment in India during a webinar panel Monday morning hosted by Harvard’s South Asia Institute. The webinar ...