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Justice Kimberley S. Budd, 54, was confirmed on Wednesday as the first Black woman to serve as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which traces its history to the late 17th century (…

Pope Francis has abolished the death penalty in the Catholic Church with his issuance of a new encyclical known as the “Fratelli Tutti.” The death penalty is…

The federal government executed the seventh person in a span of just over two months and the second this week (article available here). Christopher Vialva, 40, was…

The federal government executed the seventh person in a span of just over two months and the second this week (access full article.…

The federal government executed the seventh person in a span of just over two months and the second this week (article available here). Christopher Vialva, 40, was…

A former U.S. soldier, William Emmett LeCroy, 50, on Tuesday became the sixth federal inmate executed by lethal injection since July of this year at the Federal Correction Institution in Terre Haute (article available…

A former U.S. soldier, William Emmett LeCroy, 50, on Tuesday became the sixth federal inmate executed by lethal injection since July of this year at the Federal Correction Institution in Terre Haute (…

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the architect of the legal fight for equality and women's rights in the 1970s who subsequently served 27 years on the nation's highest court, died Friday, September 18, 2020 (…

Two inmates have died in as many days from coronavirus at the federal prison complex where the U.S. government plans to carry out two executions next week (access full article). 65-year-old Byron Dale Bird died on…

Two inmates have died in as many days from coronavirus at the federal prison complex where the U.S. government plans to carry out two executions next week (article available here…