Turkey may defy international pressure and reintroduce the death penalty in the wake of last month’s abortive coup. That was a central theme of the weekend’s massive Democracy and Martyrs’ Rally in Istanbul. FSRN’s...
An estimated 32 million people who grew up Catholic in the U.S. have left the church in recent decades, an exodus driven in part by the perception that its teachings are irreconcilable with modern...
In 2012, Connecticut repealed the death penalty for all but the 11 people who were on death row at the time the law was passed. Thursday, the state’s Supreme Court ruled the part of...
Information about the Boko Haram attack on the northeastern Nigerian town of Baga and its surrounding villages is slowly seeping out, confirming reports issued last week of large-scale destruction. The death toll has been...
A Egyptian court convicted three journalists today from the Al Jazeera Network on charges they conspired with the Muslim Brotherhood to produce false news reports of political unrest in the country. The three were...
Violence escalates in eastern Ukraine as fears of civil war grow U.S. Supreme Court rules IQ is not enough to determine mental fitness for execution Residents of southern Appalachia regard coal slurry dams as...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in favor of a developmentally disabled man on Florida’s death row, saying states must consider more than just an intelligence test score to determine if a prisoner with...
Execution in Oklahoma Download He tossed. He turned. He moaned. He burned. Clayton Lockett, on the death gurney of Oklahoma’s Department of Corrections spoke words, struggled, and reportedly kicked his legs for 43 minutes...
Death Row Record In a trial that may be unprecedented anywhere in the world, an Egyptian military court recently returned 528 death sentences to many supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. In what is seen...
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