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 ...

Don’t finish last. It’s a mantra every fantasy football player tells themselves. Of course everyone wants to make the playoffs; everyone wants to win the ‘chip. But ultimately, no one wants to finish ...

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 ...

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.

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 donated by French lawyer Robert Badinter, who fought for the abolition of the death penalty, is on display at Marseille’s Museum of the Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean ...

A common rumor holds that Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the Frenchman who invented the guillotine, was also eventually executed with the device. But as the Dictionary of Eponyms notes, "Dr. Joseph ...