The Romanian party members, who were pampered as guests of honor, were to segue into capitalism only a few months later, after dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu was deposed and executed.

The spot where Ceausescu, the Romanian despot was executed is to be turned into a museum. THE grim barracks where Romania’s brutal communist despot Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena ...

Transylvania, Dracula, The Carpathian Mountains, castles and Bucharest are only some of what Romania is known for. Find out ...

Texas death row inmate David Leonard Wood's execution, which had been set for this week, was halted by a Texas appeals court on Tuesday. Wood, 67, has spent nearly 33 years on death row and had ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls ...

South Carolina has scheduled the execution of an inmate convicted of fatally shooting an off-duty police officer, which would make him the fifth person the state put to death since it resumed ...

This reaction, however, often misses the real cause: execution. Execution problems don’t come crashing through the door. They sneak in quietly, like water dripping into a basement you rarely check.

A South Carolina man was executed by firing squad Friday — the first execution of its kind in the U.S. since 2010 and just the fourth firing squad execution since the death penalty resumed in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner to die by that method in 15 years. Three volunteer prison employees ...

The convicted murderer Brad Sigmon's execution will happen at 6 pm local time on Friday evening (12 pm CET), unless either the governor of South Carolina or the Supreme Court decides to give him a ...