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

Shalom Nagar, the reluctant executioner of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann, died on 26 November in Israel. He was in his late 80s. In 1962, Nagar was a twenty-something prison guard when he was ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

At the head of a country bled dry by decades of neglect and an appalling civil war, President Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power in just a few days by a lightning offensive. A Herculean task ...