He was the hangman chosen to carry out the sentence on the fugitive Nazi war criminal, in Israel’s only case of capital ...

Zimbabwe’s senate has approved a bill to abolish the death penalty and it is now set to be signed into law by the president ...

The executioner of notorious Nazi official Adolf Eichmann died on Wednesday. Shalom Nagar, who said he kept the secret for 30 years and had nightmares after the execution, was 86. Eichmann was one ...

In a past interview with Arutz Sheva – Israel National, Nagar said that for years he was prohibited from revealing the fact that he was Eichmann's executioner and that for the first year after ...

The southern African country uses hanging, and last executed someone in 2005, partly because at one point no one was willing to take up the job of state executioner, or hangman. President Emmerson ...

Nagar's death was confirmed by Avigail Sperber, who directed "The Hangman," a 2010 film about ... he was being called back to work to serve as executioner. He persuaded the driver to turn around ...

The southern African country uses hanging, and last executed someone in 2005, partly because at one point no one was willing to take up the job of state executioner, or hangman. President Emmerson ...