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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.
Sometimes, trying to turn stories into data — with implications of statistical proof and that old journalistic convention, the trend — harms rather than helps.
Prosecutors, judges and juries are increasingly prodded to assess the role of combat trauma in crimes by veterans.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As Ms. Bhutto's body arrived in her family village, protests and riots broke out across the country.
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.
As enthusiasm for executions fell elsewhere, more than 60 percent of all U.S. executions took place in Texas this year.
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.
Mexico's country music stars are being killed at an alarming rate — 13 in the past year and a half.
Robert A. Hawkins made a five-year journey through a maze of juvenile services before killing eight people and himself in a mall.
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.
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.
Accused of killing a white youth in a predominantly white suburb, a black man evokes Jim Crow lynch mobs in his defense.
Exonerated after 16 years in prison, Jeffrey Mark Deskovic is a free man who has yet to feel truly free.
Exonerated after 16 years in prison, Jeffrey Mark Deskovic is a free man who has yet to feel truly free.
Studies indicating that executions are a deterrent against future murders have been the subject of sharp criticism.
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.
States unwilling to pay the huge costs of defending people charged in capital cases may be unable to hold executions.
A Connecticut congregation debates capital punishment after the brutal murders of three of its members.
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