The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state ...

Anti-death penalty advocates, including state abolitionists, former death row inmates and allies, held a rally in Texas calling for capital punishment to be abolished.

Prosecutors had depicted the ladies on death row—some of whom had been judged guilty of killing their own children—as embodiments of evil. The nuns, however, declined to view the inmates this way.