International observers who monitored the voting found irregularities, saying the conduct of Sunday's referendum "fell short" of international standards.

Assisted suicide is legal in five states and the District of Columbia. Will other states soon join the group?

A federal judge halted Arkansas' unprecedented plan to execute several inmates before the end of the month because one of its execution drugs is about to expire.

Remarkably, the death sentences are being pushed through this month in an effort to beat the May expiration date for the state’s supply of midazolam, a controversial sedative that is one of three drugs used in lethal injections.

Almost every lily any of us in the United States will see this Easter comes from the very same tiny area at the northwest border of California.

Why do we use violence to solve violence?