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

Bangladesh's deadliest executioner, who hanged criminals ... He lived alone". Bhuiyan became a hangman while serving a 42-year prison sentence for robbery and murder at Dhaka's top jail.

China on Tuesday executed a former Communist party official who was convicted in a $421-million financial scam. China often ...

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 ...

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 identity of the hangman who executed Adolf Eichmann in 1962 was kept secret for three decades. By the time Shalom Nagar’s name was unearthed by Israeli journalists, Nagar had retired from ...

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 ...

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 ...