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Prosecutors say that as news of the crime spread, the two men exchanged messages relishing the outrage and sadness they caused. The tree in northern England was believed to be about 200 years old.

Such books were often created as mementos by doctors or as a form of punishment for executed ... one of the most haunting true crime stories from 19th-century England. In 1827, William Corder ...

As far back as the Ancient Laws of China, the death penalty has been established as a punishment for crimes. In the 18th ... Under the Capital Laws of New-England that went into effect between ...

The medieval philosopher and theologian ... it is inevitable that innocent people will be convicted of crimes. Where capital punishment is used such mistakes cannot be put right.

A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” ...

So, there’s a highly inflexible system of crime and punishment on the field of battle, and seemingly few steadfast principles in the social/behavioural realm – with the possible exception of ...

The number of knife-enabled homicides in England and Wales has fallen by 16% (Ros Drinkwater/Alamy/PA) Knife crime offences recorded by police forces in England and Wales have increased in recent ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Knife crime offences recorded by police forces in England and Wales have increased in recent years, but remain below levels seen before the ...