The guillotine used to execute Nazi resistance siblings Sophie and Hans Scholl in 1943 appears to have been found in southern Germany after being thought lost for decades, a museum said Friday. The ...

Human rights watchdogs are losing their heads over a controversial auction in Paris on Wednesday. At issue is the sale of a 150-year-old guillotine — with a starting price of close to $10,000 — which ...

The contraption was gathering dust in a storeroom of the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. Embarrassed officials said on Friday they recalled its use in a previous museum exhibition where it was ...

A German museum revealed that they have found the guillotine used to execute Nazi resistance siblings Sophie and Hans Scholl in 1943 which was thought to have been lost for decades. The blood-stained ...

A working model of a guillotine made by a Napoleonic prisoner, awaiting his death, is expected to fetch up to £8,000 at auction when it goes on sale early next month. The 200-year-old replica was ...

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 ...

A guillotine has fetched €8,008 (£7080) at a controversial auction in Paris. The 150-year-old replica of a device used for executions was bought on Wednesday by a French millionaire and collector of ...

Concerns about the drugs used for executions are being raised again after the federal government announced it will once again execute inmates convicted of capital crimes almost 16 years after the last ...

A guillotine has fetched €8,008 (£7080) at a controversial auction in Paris. The 150-year-old replica of a device used for executions was bought on Wednesday by a French millionaire and collector of ...