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“I killed the thing that almost killed me,” said Kirk Bloodsworth, who faced execution in Maryland, the latest state to outlaw capital punishment.

But I’m not giving up on this precious, important city. America shouldn’t either.

Reliance on the criminal justice system as the primary solution to intimate partner violence is a long-standing point of debate in the movement to end it.

As the hunger strike approaches its 100th day on May 17, 100 prisoners are refusing food.

How music plagiarism ruined a composer’s career and literally drove him mad.

Search engine executives warn about invasive government surveillance, but the digital arms trade begins with their own technologies.

How three US citizens were killed by their own government in the space of one month in 2011.

There ought to be a response to violence besides callous indifference and total social warfare.

That’s the unanimous conclusion of a nonpartisan task force. It should teach us not to overreact to the Boston bombings.

Whatever happened to quiet bravery and dignity?