Depending on where you live, corporal punishment—the practice of school administrators, staffers, or teachers subjecting students to physical punishment—may seem like it belongs in a bygone era. But ...

Milestones in capital punishment in Texas: 1819 – George Brown is first person executed in Texas, by hanging. 1863 – Chipita Rodriguez is first woman executed in Texas, by hanging. 1923 – Lee Nathan ...

Maryland has been engaged in capital punishment for more than 200 years – first by hanging, then a gas chamber and finally by lethal injection. The earliest recorded execution in the state took place ...

Across time and cultures, facial mutilation has been a preferred form of punishment for various crimes, but why?

Teachers believed that corporal punishment encouraged children to focus: All three generations of teachers in the study ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US In 1904, a violent mob set upon the jail in the ...

Whenever brutal murders happen in Iowa, there's often a call for a return to capital punishment. The ambush slayings of Des Moines Police Sgt. Tony Beminio and Urbandale Police Officer Justin Martin ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- If you're looking to get out of the house this summer and go back in time, consider a visit to Henricus Historical Park. The park sits on about five acres of land in Chesterfield ...

Three scholars of Indian criminal law presented archival research on the history of punishment in India during a webinar panel Monday morning hosted by Harvard’s South Asia Institute. The webinar ...