A Florida inmate is challenging the US state's use of a rigid IQ number to determine intellectual disability, in a case that spotlights the issue of the mentally ill on death row.
Mar 2, 2014
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World governments at a UN meeting on the global drug problem were urged Tuesday to move away from repression, abolish the death penalty for drug offenses and step up treatment.
Apr 19, 2016
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Two Nigerian journalists and a cleric were granted bail on Thursday after being charged over a controversial radio programme on polio vaccines days before deadly attacks on polio clinics.
Feb 12, 2013
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From the breakup of a relationship to losing a loved one, people are often told to find "closure" after traumatic things happen.
Jul 27, 2022
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Access to required anesthetic agents for a lethal injection is quickly disappearing, leaving the future of the death penalty in the United States in question.
Feb 13, 2014
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In the first study of its kind researchers are to examine life imprisonment on an international scale. The work will be led by Professor Dirk Van Zyl Smit – an expert in penal law and life imprisonment at The University ...
Jan 3, 2014
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A leading association for U.S. pharmacists adopted a policy Monday that discourages its members from providing drugs for use in lethal injections—a move that could make carrying out such executions even harder for states ...
Mar 30, 2015
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(HealthDay)—In its latest ruling on capital punishment, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the use of a controversial drug that had raised concerns that it didn't perform as intended—to put an inmate into a coma-like ...
Jun 29, 2015
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Our belief in pure evil influences our feelings about capital punishment, finds a Kansas State University psychology study.
May 14, 2015
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Societies have long grappled with where to draw the chronological age boundary between adolescence and adulthood. The United States stands apart from most of the world in that it uses different ages for different rights and ...
Mar 5, 2018
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