The Romanian dicator Nicolae Ceaușescu was once known as 'The Genius ... wasn't quite so clever after all and, in 1989, executed him on live television. Reinhard Heydrich earned the nickname ...

Having found his idealism betrayed in America, Serbian-born screenwriter and playwright Steve Tesich produced an unlikely and bitter comic masterpiece ...

Against a unifyingly momentous milieu - namely, the wintry week of revolution that preceded the accelerated downfall, trial and execution of communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu on Christmas Day ...

Magnificent, but jarring. Construction, which began in 1984 and is still unfinished, was ordered by Nicolas Ceaușescu, the second and last communist leader of Romania. He was overthrown and executed ...

In a moment of exaltation when US troops conquered Baghdad on April 10 last year, the US Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, proclaimed that “Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside ...

Richard Lee Tabler, who fatally shot four people in 2004, was executed by lethal injection in Texas. This execution marks the second one in the United States on the same day, following the ...

Two men are set to be executed within an hour of each other in the U.S. on Thursday. Tabler's execution on Thursday comes 20 years after he went on a killing spree in the central Texas city of ...

YEAH, THE LAST EXECUTION IN LOUISIANA WAS BACK IN 2010. AND WITH GOVERNOR LANDRY MAKING THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WITH NEW PROTOCOLS, PEOPLE THAT ARE INMATES AND THEY ARE ON DEATH ROW COULD BE SEEN BEING ...

Feb. 14 (UPI) --Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this year. James Ford, 64, was executed in Florida for the ...

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...