Jessie Hoffman, 46, is condemned to die Tuesday for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 28-year-old accounting executive Molly Elliott in 1996. While some states have passed or are considering ...

Mother Nature has thrown all sorts of weather curveballs at corn growers this spring. Farmers are dealing with every kind of weather extreme – from deep drought in parts of the West to record rainfall ...

When it comes to administering the death penalty, perhaps the most intractable difficulty is that it’s just really, really difficult to kill someone in a way that isn’t cruel or unusual or messy or ...