According to a status report filed by Mikal Mahdi’s lawyers, the autopsy and eyewitness accounts of his death raise several ...

Last week, we learned another hard lesson about executions, namely that there is no foolproof way of killing someone.

Two state representatives are asking the South Carolina government to launch an investigation into the execution of a death row inmate after his attorneys filed a complaint alleging the process was ...

Mind you, these are the people he chose after his previous nominees proved too controversial for Senate confirmation.

People Leo XIV, the first American elected to the papacy. But history suggests no woman has ever held the role, and the Church's cannon law prohibits women from being ordained and does not recognize ...

Pope Leo XIV is set to give the first news conference of his pontificate - watch live at the top of the page from 10:55 local time (09:55 BST, 08:55 GMT) On Sunday, the Pope appealed for "no more war" ...