LOS ANGELES, CA – Indian American filmmaker Smriti Mundhra’s latest documentary short, I Am Ready, Warden, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Oscars. The emotionally powerful film delves into the ...

Texans have long taken pride in the fact that their state is “like a whole other country,” but the truth is, in many ways, it’s like a whole other Louisiana. Both are deep red states that share a ...

Early views on capital punishment: colonial era to independence -- The abolition movement gains ground, 1800-1917 -- War and economic depression overshadow capital punishment, 1918-1959 -- Capital ...

HOUSTON (AP) — More Americans now believe the death penalty, which is undergoing a yearslong decline of use and support, is being administered unfairly, a finding that is adding to its growing ...

IN England around 1800, more than 200 offenses, including forgery, poaching, cutting down somebody else’s tree and associating with gypsies, were punishable by death. Women and children were hanged ...