So far, 11 states have carried out 45 executions this year, nearly double the number in 2024, even as public opinion ...

Patricia J. Williams, a law professor at Columbia University, articulates what she calls her un-American opposition to the death penalty, even in the case of Timothy McVeigh. That she does so in a ...

It undeniably infects human affairs. Parents observe it as their toddlers navigate playground dynamics: one child hits another; the other strikes back. Domestic feuds and old grudges can metastasize ...

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision, made during the holiest week of the Christian year, to allow Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's execution to be shown on closed-circuit television, ...