While most Americans still favor the death penalty for those convicted of murder, support for capital punishment is lower than it has been in 40…

The US Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that over a more than two-decade period before 2000, nearly every FBI examiner gave flawed forensic…

Today marks the day of fast for Catholics in the U.S. as part of the “Lenten Fast for Climate Justice,” a global campaign launched by…

A United Nations human rights expert strongly condemned the U.S. on Tuesday for being the "only State in the world that still sentences children to…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to Saudi Arabia coincides with a recent surge of executions in that country. So far this year, at…