Kim Jong Un is said to have executed a general by tossing him into a tank filled with piranhas. The unidentified general, who was accused of plotting a coup, is believed to be among the victims of ...

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry ...

Known as 'death by a thousand cuts' or 'slow slicing', this chilling method of execution was used in China, and the name barely scratches the surface of the horrors it entailed. Until its prohibition ...