Book of Donmon Teith

The perennially controversial issue of capital punishment has generated especially passionate debate in recent years. In this book, two noted experts on crime p

If you were to examine an 1816 map of the world, you would discover that half the countries represented there no longer exist. Yet since 1945, the disappearance

Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. Thi

The definitive compilation on witchcraft and witch hunting in the early modern era exploring significant people, places, beliefs, and events. Encyclopedia of Wi

In 1872 Susan Eberhart was convicted of murder for helping her lover to kill his wife. The Atlanta Constitution ran a story about her hanging in Georgia that co