Executions and executioners Archives

Executions and executioners

Sign of the Times

by James Harkin,

Caliphate and the perils of reporting online

Head Over Heels

From a passage in a sixteenth-century book of Tudor warrants discovered last year by Sean Cunningham, the head of medieval records at the National Archives in England, and Tracy Borman,…

Kandahar’s Mystery Executions

by Anand Gopal,

Are the Afghan police using torture to achieve peace?

Stop Time

by Chloe Dewe Mathews, Geoff Dyer,

Remembering World War I’s executed deserters

This Will Be the Last

by Monique Mabelly,Translated by Ryann Liebenthal,

By Monique Mabelly, from an account of the September 9, 1977, execution by guillotine, at Marseille’s Baumettes prison, of Tunisian prisoner Hamida Djandoubi, published in Le Monde last October. Mabelly,…