President Jalal Talabani has paved the way for the first legal execution in Iraq since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, the presidential office said Wednesday. The case involves three men sentenced to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When child molester and killer Westley Allan Dodd was hanged on Jan. 5, 1993, it marked the first legal hanging in the U.S. since ...

“Hanging Around the Big Sky: The Unofficial Guide to Lynching, Strangling and Legal Hangings of Montana” — By Tom Donovan Book One: Legal Hangings While most of the famous hangings of Montana have ...

The site of the hanging of Kit Leftwich was near the Flat Hollow Cemetery, which then was located near the intersection of Oakview and Buckner streets in the Rice Terrace section of Bristol, Va. The ...