Elaine* spent the final 20 years of her life writing letters to 25 long-term prisoners in the U.S. prison system. Each of the 24 men and the sole woman ...

Afghanistan's last female ambassador, Manizha Bakhtari, continues her fight against Taliban from Austria, advocating for ...

Capital punishment will be sought only in “exceedingly rare cases” after detailed review and consultation with crime victims.

After Sigmon chose the firing squad, suddenly, said Taylor, “I got catapulted into the movement to save his life.” She was ...

• Camosy: As you say, the encyclical itself was motivated in part by concern for new threats to human life that were emerging ...

As issues like abortion, assisted suicide and in-vitro fertilization continue to be widely discussed today, looking back on the prescient writing of St. John Paul II on such matters can help the faith ...

I find the Zero Carbon Plan approved by Maple Ridge council, that requires relatively inexpensive, clean natural gas be ...

Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, joined top Democrats in insisting that the ...

Since his teenage years, Koji Hayashi has dreaded one thing: his stubborn, once-vivacious mother being hanged for murder ...

Orange County officials are expecting about 10,000 deportation orders from the federal government — and some of those ...

I just read an article by Mr. Brad Shaw entitled Dead Man Walking. It is obvious that Mr. Shaw spent a deal of time compiling statistics on the matter of capital punishment. He anchors his position on ...

A former police officer who fatally Tasered a 95-year-old Australian woman after she refused his orders to drop a knife has ...