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That's the real-life question taking place in Sweden. What do you think? excerpt: "It is hard to think of a case in which a murderer should become a medical doctor. Murder and medical practice are simply incompatible.
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Sometimes, trying to turn stories into data — with implications of statistical proof and that old journalistic convention, the trend — harms rather than helps.
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Prosecutors, judges and juries are increasingly prodded to assess the role of combat trauma in crimes by veterans.
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A man accused of killing his stepdaughter has admitted he routinely beat her, drawing attention to the vague nature of New York State law dealing with corporal punishment.
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The Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one, after their return from war.
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The Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one, after their return from war.
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The New York Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one, after their return from war.
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Rare juror testimony on whether racial bias tainted a high-profile murder conviction ended on Friday, leaving the judge alone with the thorny task of deciding whether a new trial is warranted.
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A lack of regulation of the home schooling process may have contributed to the abuse and murders of the children of Banita M. Jacks in Washington.
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Pakistan's largest political party picked Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son to succeed her as chairman and vowed to forge ahead with elections next week.
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As Ms. Bhutto's body arrived in her family village, protests and riots broke out across the country.
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A man who lived a low-key life has been arrested in a killing that happened in 1982 and some unwelcome memories have been rekindled.
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As enthusiasm for executions fell elsewhere, more than 60 percent of all U.S. executions took place in Texas this year.
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The work of Jay Salpeter, a former New York City homicide detective, was crucial in winning a new trail for a man imprisoned half his life.
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Mexico's country music stars are being killed at an alarming rate — 13 in the past year and a half.
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Robert A. Hawkins made a five-year journey through a maze of juvenile services before killing eight people and himself in a mall.
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Officials today gave a more detailed chronology of what took place in an Omaha mall in the few minutes it took Robert Hawkins to kill eight people.
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A jury that convicted a black man of the rape and murder of a white fashion writer in 2002 on Cape Cod is being ordered to court for a rare public hearing to consider whether racial bias influenced the verdict.
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Accused of killing a white youth in a predominantly white suburb, a black man evokes Jim Crow lynch mobs in his defense.
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Exonerated after 16 years in prison, Jeffrey Mark Deskovic is a free man who has yet to feel truly free.
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Exonerated after 16 years in prison, Jeffrey Mark Deskovic is a free man who has yet to feel truly free.
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Studies indicating that executions are a deterrent against future murders have been the subject of sharp criticism.
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Seven children and a principal were killed Wednesday when an 18-year-old student opened fire at a school, hours after he posted a video on YouTube foreshadowing the massacre.
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States unwilling to pay the huge costs of defending people charged in capital cases may be unable to hold executions.
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A Connecticut congregation debates capital punishment after the brutal murders of three of its members.