Death Penalty

A number of challenges to capital punishment are underway in the South.

It was an otherwise bright spot for left-leaning voters, on a night punctuated by shocking Republican gains.

The next president will change the Supreme Court's ideological makeup for four decades.

Ramping up criminal penalties for drug misuse will further entrench the poverty and social circumstances driving it.

Now it's up to the Senate to decide whether the legislation will more forward.

California voters will get a chance to abolish the state's expensive and flawed death penalty system.

Trump is using sexual assault imagery to sell angry white males a fantasy role as defenders of a feminine nation.

One revolves around questions of racial bias, and the other addresses the treatment of intellectually disabled prisoners.

By participating in lethal injection executions, directly or not, are medical practitioners violating professional ethics?

Saving the lives of these men could show the Saudis that the US will no longer close its eyes to their grotesque human rights record.