Murder Follows Deception

In 1992 a sophomore at Simon's Rock College in western Massachusetts named Wayne Lo went on a killing rampage with a semiautomatic rifle. He killed ...

A No-Compromise Issue

An 1871 report from the American Medical Associated concerning abortion stated:

If our language has appeared to some strong and severe, or even intemperate, ...

No Excuse for Murder

To burn a heretic is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

There But for the Grace of God Go I

As murder storywriters assume, and as most of us learn in experience, we have in us capacities for fury, fear, envy, greed, conceit, callousness, and ...

The Tigress of Rome

The Tigress of Rome

(900s AD)

Marrying for money was a way of life for Marozia, the woman who dominated the papacy during the 10th century. When barely ...

Wrongful Death

When a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is a sign that, by education or circumstances, she has been greatly wronged.

A Disarming Embrace

On Monday, August 9, 1993, a 31-year-old woman, Sopehia Mardress White, burst into the hospital nursery at USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, wielding ...

Doctors Willing to Kill

Percent of U.S. doctors who treat the seriously ill who would be willing to hasten a patient's death by prescribing medication--11

Percent who would provide ...

Our Throw-Away Society

In this society we save whales, we save timber wolves and bald eagles and Coke bottles. Yet, everyone wanted me to throw away my baby.

The Stockholm Syndrome

"The term Stockholm Syndrome first occurred in 1973 at an attempted bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. A man tried to rob a bank, and the police ...