A little bit of prosperity can be deadly in the Third World. Traffic deaths are a serious and growing public-health problem in developing countries, according to a World Health Organization survey.

Lethal injection is the primary method of execution in the United States. But as the morality and fairness of the death penalty continues to face scrutiny and the drugs used for the cocktail are ...

On April 24, Arkansas executed two death row inmates on the same gurney in a single day – the first double execution in the United States since 2000. Arkansas plans to execute eight inmates by the end ...