NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Prof. Anne Pringle, a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, about the latest research on death cap mushrooms, revealing new information about the enigmatic ...

They pushed for restarting the death penalty, cracking down on cashless bail, and requiring magistrates to consider a ...

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins and Portage County Prosecutor Connie Lewandowski are mad as hell, and they don’t want Ohioans to take it anymore. Their legitimate outrage targets this ...

It is unclear how Mr. Trump would carry out his directive. The Supreme Court ruled that mandatory death sentences were unconstitutional nearly half a century ago. By Chris Cameron Reporting from ...

President Donald Trump said that his administration will seek to bring back the death penalty for all murder cases in Washington, D.C., where capital punishment has been abolished since 1981. “If ...

“The old shelter, when you would walk in and surrender a dog, it was pretty much a death sentence,” said shelter volunteer Lisa Krasnow. The first day Courtney Proctor Cross walked into Huntington, ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he wants prosecutors to pursue the death penalty in murder cases in Washington, D.C. But that idea runs headfirst into the city’s local laws, which ...

President Trump spent more than three hours touting what he sees as his administration's achievements at his cabinet meeting. He weighed in on topics from reinstating the death penalty for murder ...

In 1962, Congress abolished the mandatory death penalty for Washington, D.C. One decade later, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down existing death penalty laws nationwide, forcing states to rewrite ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump said Tuesday that he wants the Justice Department to seek the death penalty in all murder cases in DC — hours after the capital’s 12-day murder-free streak ended. “Anybody ...