Today in History for Dec. 8: In 1694, a French Jesuit missionary in Canada, Noel Chabanel, was murdered by a renegade Huron. He was one of the group known as the Jesuit Martyrs of North America ...

A death row prisoner endured a horrifyingly botched execution that lasted nearly 45 minutes, resulting in his blood splattering the chamber and leaving him writhing in torment. Clayton Lockett, 38, ...