Looking for a light afternoon diversion? Consider paying a visit to the Medieval Torture Museum, an interactive, eight-room tour of history’s most gruesome torture methods that debuted last month on a ...

1977: France stages its last execution using the guillotine. A Tunisian immigrant living in Marseilles, Hamida Djandoubi, was executed for the torture-slaying of his girlfriend. He had killed her in ...

If the metal-spiked interrogation chair wasn't enough to make a sadomasochist gulp, the 10-foot wooden impaler would surely do the trick. And so would most of the other medieval torture and death ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Regarding "Bill would bring back execution by firing squad" (Jan. 18): Firing squad? Why not the guillotine? It requires no ...