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 ...

Before the electric chair was used in Nashville for the first time, on July 14, 1916, nine men in Knox County were hanged by sheriffs after their Criminal Court convictions for either rape or murder.

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 ...

The last state-sanctioned execution in North Dakota took place in 1905, with the hanging of John Rooney. Although he maintained to the end that a partner, "Kansas Slim," was responsible for fatally ...

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 ...

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