Corporal punishment—usually referring to adults hitting children—was abolished in South Africa in 1997. The Constitutional ...

THE government has issued a chilling warning against excessive physical violence on children in the name of instituting ...

Across time and cultures, facial mutilation has been a preferred form of punishment for various crimes, but why?

"It's going to be a mixed bag," Xander Schauffele said when asked about the players' opinions and possible discipline on ...

Yakisugi is a Japanese architectural technique for charring the surface of wood. It has become quite popular in ...

During his remarks from the House floor today, Representative Al Green railed against Trump's reckless mass deportations. Green stated, "This is a form of collective punishment." Trump suffers major ...

The enrollment chiefs at Tulane and the University of Chicago attracted many early applicants. Now both of them earn a lot of money. By Ron Lieber The University of Chicago was where fun went to die.

With dexterous childlike hands and cheeky “masks,” raccoons are North America’s ubiquitous backyard bandits. The critters are so comfortable in human environments, in fact, that a new study finds that ...

The death penalty is a travesty when it is used against anyone. It is called the ultimate penalty for a reason. In the American legal tradition, it is only to be imposed after a careful weighing of ...

Being executed is rarely a good way to go, but Lingchi—also known as "death by a thousand cuts"—is one of the worst. This brutal method of execution was used in imperial China from the 10th century ...

Colorado researchers think subtle changes in mobility could be early signs of Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia. Dr. Neha Lodha, director of Colorado State University’s Movement ...