#Capital punishment

Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know? Irena Sendler was living in Poland at the beginning of WWII, by which point the Germans had made helping Jews punishable by death. But Sendler, raised by a father who believed helping people – all people – who were in trouble was the right

Author: Kathy Padden / Source: Today I Found Out Michael F. asks: Are executions really held at midnight like shown in the movies? If so, why? By the time Rainey Bethea was executed on August 14, 1936, most of the United States had ceased executing people publicly. However, in Kentucky in 1936

Author: The Associated Press / Source: 13 WTHR Indianapolis COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The man accused of killing a woman who got into his car thinking it was her Uber ride had activated the child locks in his backseat so the doors could only be opened from the outside, police in South Carolina say.

Author: Matthew Richardson / Source: did you know? Russian history is loaded with outlandish and often unbelievable stories. From the man-sized frying pans of Ivan the Terrible, to the rumors of Catherine the Great’s equine sexcapades. Yet, the story of Peter III’s treasonous rat stands out as a