Justice
April 17, 2008 -
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that two Kentucky death row inmates had not proven their case that executions by lethal injection posed an unacceptable risk of excruciating pain for the condemned.
April 11, 2008 -
Last week Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour signed into law a measure that renews the state's ban on hog-dog fighting, first passed in 2006.
April 4, 2008 -
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination.
March 26, 2008 -
Earlier this week we brought you the story of North Carolina state Rep. Thomas E. Wright, a New Hanover County Democrat expelled from the legislature last week over charges that he misappropriated almost $350,000 in campaign and other funds. He and his attorneys -- among them N.C.
March 18, 2008 -
For more than three decades, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have been locked in solitary confinement in Louisiana's notorious Angola prison for a murder the evidence shows they did not commit.
March 12, 2008 -
Dessie Lee Patterson, the mayor of South Mansfield, La., was found murdered in her home yesterday following an apparent robbery. She was 88.
March 3, 2008 -
An excerpt of a 1981 Southern Exposure interview with civil rights organizer James Orange, who talks about how he got his nickname, the importance of freedom songs to the movement, and his later work with gangs in Chicago. Orange passed in away in February 2008 at age 65.
