Byron Black noted intense pain during his lethal injection death earlier this week, with some wondering if it was because his ...

Ozzy Osbourne's official cause of death has been revealed two weeks after the rock legend died in Birminghamshire, England on ...

Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator did not cause any direct complications during his execution this week, ...

A mass grave with 14th-century skeletons possibly linked to the Black Death was recently discovered at the Tower of London, ...

The Black Death arrived on the shores of England in May 1348 and, in less than two years, spread throughout the country, ...

Archaeologists excavating a famous tourist location have uncovered 20 skeletons belonging to people they believe perished ...

The Black Death, dying out in the 17th century, lost the fight. The last great epidemic was in 1670 - after that smallpox took over as the number one infectious disease killer.

Yet when an editor at the Free Press called in the summer of 1997, asking whether I would consider doing a book on the Black Death, which swept through Europe in the 14th century, I had my doubts.

The Black Death’s gruesome, powerful hold on the human psyche is readily understandable. But why is it that so many people yearn for a return to the cold, miserable conditions that spawned the ...

Although the pic is set in 1348, screenwriter Dario Poloni (“Wilderness”) has spliced into “Black Death” a lot of thematic DNA from 20th-century-set “The Wicker Man” (1973), another ...