World War II certainly brought the strands of world history together, with its global reach and its acceleration of the end ...

It recommends the summary execution of the thousands of prisoners ... filled with hatred towards the Soviet system," Beria wrote. The first page of the letter bears the word "Za" -- "in favor ...

Beria was known for organizing the massacre of 22,000 Polish officers in 1940 and was said to have raped scores of young girls. He was executed in 1953. ALSO READ: Trump allies promise revenge as ...

Khrushcheva compared Putin’s trajectory to that of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who died alone after a stroke, and Lavrenti Beria, Stalin’s brutal security chief, who was executed.

Writer-director Armando Iannucci grapples with these questions in his excellent second feature, The Death of Stalin, based on ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25 JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be ...

Florida executes Army veteran with mental problems for the shotgun killings of his girlfriend and her 3 children STARKE, Fla. -- Florida executes Army veteran with mental problems for the shotgun ...

Five states − South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and Idaho − have legalized firing squads as an execution method but Mahdi's is only the fifth such execution since 1977. A firing ...

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia executed two people convicted of terrorism related charges, the interior ministry said Saturday, bringing the total number of executions carried out this year to at least 100 ...

Gulf War veteran Jeffrey G. Hutchinson, who was convicted of one of Florida’s most heinous family massacres, was executed Thursday evening following the signing of a death warrant by Florida Gov.