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Torture. Execution. Death. Listen as two die-hard fans chat about some of history's most gruesome death sentences. From famous queens and kings to the uncommon names in history, no conviction will be left untouched. Try not to lose your head over this comical approach to the shocking and disturbing stories of treason and crime (whether found guilty or not).

The Sayre Slayer of New Jersey | Antoine Le Blanc

58 mins; March 19, 2026

Special Edition Episode: Interview with Adam Pennington

64 hours 26 mins; February 17, 2026

Priest, Proctor, Prisoner | Bishop John Fisher

62 hours 53 mins; February 03, 2026

The Romanov Court: Romance & Ruin | Mary Hamilton

44 mins; January 21, 2026

Boys, It's the Bisbee Massacre

59 mins; January 06, 2026

Paramours and Poison | Madame Marie-Madeleine de Brinvilliers

68 hours 46 mins; December 16, 2025

Game of Roses | Richard Woodville

51 mins; December 02, 2025

The Other Ptolemy Girl | Berenice IV

65 hours 40 mins; November 18, 2025

Special Edition Episode: Interview with Professor Suzannah Lipscomb

50 mins; October 31, 2025

Whispers of Maleficium: The Pendle Witch Trials (Part II)

59 mins; May 21, 2025

Whispers of Maleficium: The Pendle Witch Trials (Part I)

54 mins; May 14, 2025

Espionage and the Electric Chair | Ethel & Julius Rosenberg

64 hours 8 mins; April 23, 2025

Ella Disenchanted in Imperial Russia | Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine

58 mins; April 03, 2025

Forged in Irony | Georg Honauer

45 mins; March 19, 2025

The Catherine Wheel | Catherine of Alexandria

47 mins; March 05, 2025

Aske-ing for a Friend | Robert Aske

60 hours 24 mins; February 12, 2025

Roman Thirst for Glory and Gold | Manius Aquillius

54 mins; January 29, 2025

Rebel of the Red Cross | Edith Cavell

57 mins; January 08, 2025

Served on a Silver Platter: The Execution of John the Baptist

52 mins; December 25, 2024

The Black Dinner: A Meal to Die For

56 mins; December 11, 2024

The Forbidden Tale of the Duke and the Witch | Agnes Bernauer

52 mins; November 27, 2024

Raid Against the Machine | Jeremiah Brandreth

55 mins; November 13, 2024

Madame du Barry: The Girl from Nothing & Ready for Anything

84 hours 20 mins; October 30, 2024

Elisabeth de France and the Holy Guillotine: Part II

52 mins; July 16, 2024

Elisabeth de France and the Holy Guillotine: Part I

55 mins; June 11, 2024

The Last of the Gurus | Sikh Gurus

59 mins; May 09, 2024

Pugachev the Great | Yemelyan Pugachev

60 hours 10 mins; April 23, 2024

Arsenic and Black Widows | Catherine and Margaret Flannagn

52 mins; April 09, 2024

The Rope Drop Flop | Margaret Ward

51 mins; March 19, 2024

Egyptian Tomb Raiders: Treasure or Torture

65 hours 31 mins; February 28, 2024

The Breaking Wheel on the Bayou | Jean Baptiste Baudreau II

54 mins; February 14, 2024

Dying on a Prayer | Mabel Brigge

56 mins; January 30, 2024

Captain Jack & His Bonny Lass | Calico Jack

68 hours 5 mins; January 17, 2024

The Nightclub Murderess | Ruth Ellis

72 hours 4 mins; January 02, 2024

Peter and the Wolf | Peter Stumpp

64 hours 52 mins; December 12, 2023

The Heartless Spy | Francois Henry de la Motte

57 mins; November 28, 2023

Perkin the Pretender | Perkin Warbeck

66 hours 19 mins; November 14, 2023

Special Episode: Interview with Dr. Leah Redmond Chang

58 mins; September 19, 2023

Thomas Cromwell: From Statesman to Scaffold (Part II)

58 mins; July 21, 2023

Thomas Cromwell: From Statesman to Scaffold (Part I)

47 mins; July 06, 2023

Special Episode: Interview with Dr. Owen Emmerson

59 mins; June 17, 2023

Not Like a Regular Executioner, But a Cool Executioner | Bohemian Revolt

49 mins; June 08, 2023

The Witch and the Sow | Elizabeth Sawyer

51 mins; May 18, 2023

Evil Begets Evil | Nat Turner

58 mins; May 04, 2023

End of the Bloodline | The Távora Affair

57 mins; April 13, 2023

Bad Boy Buccaneer Turned Beheaded Botanist | Sir Walter Raleigh

59 mins; March 30, 2023

Special Edition: Interview with Megan Clawson

48 mins; March 15, 2023

Pick Your Poison | La Voisin

58 mins; March 01, 2023

Yer a Wizard, George | George Burroughs

60 hours 43 mins; February 07, 2023

Family of Traitors | Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham

62 hours 52 mins; January 24, 2023

Horsepower Hack | François Damiens

51 mins; January 06, 2023

The Beastial Life of the Blood Countess | Elizabeth Bathory

54 mins; December 13, 2022

Special Edition: Interview with James Peacock from The Queen Anne Boleyn Society

41 mins; November 22, 2022

Wanted Over the Wireless | Dr. Crippen

55 mins; November 11, 2022

Let Them Eat (more) Cake... Again... | Marie Antoinette

63 hours 47 mins; October 31, 2022

And Her: Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days' Queen (Part II)

58 mins; May 31, 2022

And Her: Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days' Queen (Part I)

54 mins; May 10, 2022

The Cutting Edge Chemist | Antoine Lavoisier

54 mins; May 03, 2022

Torture Gone Askew | Anne Askew

49 mins; April 19, 2022

Keeping Up With the Medici's | the Pazzi Conspiracy

56 mins; April 05, 2022

"The Most Wretched of All" | Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

51 mins; March 15, 2022

Livin' La Vida Voodoo | Affaire de Bizoton

61 hours 37 mins; February 23, 2022

The Three Reigns of Queen Brunhilda

50 mins; January 26, 2022

The Unlucky Knight of Friday the 13th | The Knights Templar

48 mins; January 18, 2022

Lions and Tigers and Bears... Oh Sh*t! | Roman Colosseum

65 hours 42 mins; January 04, 2022

The Nazi's Painted the White Rose Red | Sophie Scholl

50 mins; December 21, 2021

Devil at the Murder Castle | H.H. Holmes

64 hours 5 mins; December 04, 2021

Burnt to a Cosmic Crisp | Giordano Bruno

51 mins; November 16, 2021

Oh, and Parliament, You’re Fired | Charles I

56 mins; November 02, 2021

Interview with Rebecca Larson: A Special Edition Episode on Thomas Seymour

62 hours 19 mins; June 29, 2021

"The Time Will Come - I, Anne Boleyn" (Part 2)

78 hours 56 mins; May 19, 2021

"The Time Will Come - I, Anne Boleyn" (Part I)

66 hours 50 mins; May 11, 2021

Remember, Remember the 5th of November! | Guy Fawkes

52 mins; April 06, 2021

You Got Burked | William Burke & William Hare

63 hours 51 mins; March 23, 2021

The Tale of Half-Hangit Maggie | Maggie Dickson

57 mins; March 10, 2021

The Defender of Mother Russia | Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

51 mins; February 23, 2021

Beauty and the Bawd | Alice Tankerville

52 mins; February 09, 2021

Le Incompétent King: Louis XVI of France

64 hours 50 mins; January 26, 2021

Thomas More or Thomas Less?

60 hours 12 mins; January 05, 2021

The Exotic Dancer Who Knew How to Die | Mata Hari

56 mins; December 22, 2020

The Relapsed Heretic | Joan of Arc

65 hours 11 mins; December 08, 2020

Russian Raiders & Rebels | Stepan Razin

54 mins; November 23, 2020

The Woman From Hell | Elizabeth Sugrue

57 mins; November 10, 2020

That Basic B*tch Catherine Howard

67 hours 16 mins; October 27, 2020

The Red Queen of Scots: Part II | Mary, Queen of Scots

61 hours 25 mins; April 24, 2020

The Red Queen of Scots: Part I | Mary, Queen of Scots

49 mins; April 07, 2020

Ketchum If You Can! | Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum

64 hours 7 mins; March 25, 2020

Saint or Charlatan? | Elizabeth Barton

56 mins; March 03, 2020

Welcome to Beheaded

47 secs; February 27, 2020

A Fitting and Glorious End | Benito Mussolini

58 mins; February 17, 2020

Pay the Cock and Drink the Hemlock | Socrates

62 hours 57 mins; February 04, 2020

Freeeeedom! | William Wallace

64 hours 30 mins; January 20, 2020

"I Am No Traitor" | Margaret Pole

58 mins; January 06, 2020

Death, Disfigurement, and One Verbal Warning | Pharaoh Ramses III's Conspirators

62 hours 8 mins; December 26, 2019

In the Dark of the Night | Romanov Family

62 hours 8 mins; December 08, 2019

Boiling Point | Richard Roose

60 hours 37 mins; November 25, 2019

Drunk Necks Don't Snap | Captain William Kidd

53 mins; November 10, 2019

Mean Girls of 1692 | Salem Witch Trials

54 mins; October 14, 2019

Let Them Eat Cake | Marie Antoinette

50 mins; October 09, 2019

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