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

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 ...

Mackintosh of the Detective felt extremely uncomfortable. Not the fault of the surroundings. The White Hart Inn was ...

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

Stuart Winer is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel. Shalom Nagar, the Israeli prison guard who by chance, and against his wishes, was selected to hang convicted Nazi war criminal Adolf ...

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 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 ...

Such was the secrecy around the execution that Nagar's commander collected him for the duty by bundling him into a car while he was walking in the street with his wife. Nagar was concerned that she ...

There in the Portland Place attic, Mrs Gilligan prayed as, in the name of justice, she was made a widow, her husband – himself comforted by a priest – submitting to the executioner without a ...