In the U.S., capital punishment is resurgent. What lessons can we glean from France’s successful campaign to abolish it?

Dustin Poirier knows we’re thinking it. He’s thinking it, too. So is his longtime coach, Mike Brown. So is his opponent, UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev. Anyone who’s seen Poirier fight at ...

Hamida Djandoubi smoked a few cigarettes in the last moments before he was executed by guillotine in a Marseilles prison, the ultimate punishment for killing his former lover, Elisabeth Bousquet.

Islam Makhachev warns Dustin Poirier not to jump the guillotine when they fight. Makhachev (25-1 MMA, 14-1 UFC) defends his lightweight title against Poirier (30-8 MMA, 22-7 UFC) in the UFC 302 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NANTES, France – A 19th century guillotine in perfect working order goes up for auction in France on Thursday and is expected to fetch up to $82,000, the ...

The idea behind the guillotine is this: If you’re going to execute someone, you may as well do it efficiently and humanely, at least by 18th-century standards. Decapitating the condemned with an ax or ...