The United States is one of the last industrialized countries to allow the death penalty.

Handling a range of cases involving wrongful convictions, innocence groups work to present new evidence that can exonerate inmates.

Joseph Stalin was once described as "Genghis Khan with a telephone". President Ahmadinejad may soon be Genghis Khan with a nuclear bomb.

It might be, says Jim Woodall, District Attorney for Orange and Chatham Counties, reacting to the news that inaccurate reports from the State Bureau of Investigation's crime lab may have been used by prosecutors to obtain guilty verdicts in capital cases.

Annette Wilson-Connelly kept thinking of her niece, Tammy Diane Wilson, yesterday as she sat in Forsyth Superior Court and watched the man accused of killing Wilson in an apartment fire receive a life sentence.

Lacking enough of the anesthetic essential to the cocktail of lethal drugs administered during executions, several US states are being forced to postpone the procedure until early next year.