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IMAGE: CNS photo/Shawn Thew, EPABy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON(CNS) -- The United States, with its mixed record on the death penalty, isabout to take a closer look at the issue this fall with two cases before theSupreme Court and three referendums on state ballots in the November election.Inthe two death penalty cases before the court, both from Texas, one examinesinformation given to jurors while the other questions whether the state properlymeasured intellectual capability of the accused."TheSupreme Court cases this fall are addressing the brokenness of the judicialsystem," said Karen Clifton, executive director of the Catholic MobilizingNetwork to End the Death Penalty.Shesaid these cases "address the most troubling aspect of the death penalty,which is disproportionately used on vulnerable populations."Buckv. Stephens will be argued before the court Oct. 5, two days into its new term.It reviews the 1995 sentencing of Duane Buck, who was given the death penalty for the1995 murders...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- More than five months after Prince's fatal drug overdose, investigators have narrowed their focus to two main questions: whether doctors illegally prescribed opioids meant for the pop star and whether the fentanyl that killed him came from a black-market source, a law enforcement official said....
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Can you guys guess where I'm at?"...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Heavy rains from the outer bands of Hurricane Matthew drenched Haiti and Jamaica on Monday, flooding streets and sending many people to emergency shelters as the sprawling Category 4 storm steamed toward the two Caribbean countries....
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- As peace talks in Colombia advanced over the past year, 7,000 rebel fighters began slowly emerging from their jungle hideouts hoping for, if not a hero's welcome, at least an outstretched hand from fellow Colombians tired of a half century of bloody combat....
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The family of a man killed in July by Sacramento police after 911 callers reported he was waving a knife and acting erratically demanded Monday that two officers face murder charges after dash-cam video revealed they talked inside their police cruiser about running him down. He dodged the cruiser twice and was shot 14 times less than a minute later by the same two officers....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Already testy, relations between the United States and Russia plummeted Monday as Washington suspended diplomatic contacts with Moscow over failed efforts to end the war in Syria and President Vladimir Putin put on hold a deal with the U.S. on disposing weapons-grade plutonium....
HERNDON, Virginia (AP) -- Donald Trump is drawing scorn from veterans' groups after he suggested that soldiers who suffer from mental health issues might not be as strong as those who don't....
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Hillary Clinton tore into Donald Trump's tax maneuvering, business skills and trustworthiness Monday as she sought to capitalize on news that the New York real estate mogul may have paid no federal taxes for years. Unfazed, he boasted of using U.S. tax laws "brilliantly" and cast himself as a savvy business survivor poised to save a reeling nation....
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- The New York attorney general's office has ordered Donald Trump's charitable foundation to immediately stop fundraising in the state, saying it isn't registered to do so....
