The death penalty is increasingly being used in the United States.
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The 1984 New Bedford rape trials felt something like two strides forward and many small steps backward.

The Barmen Declaration, the best-known document of the German Confessing Church during the Nazi era.

The rain fell in steady streams. The forecast said rain through the night and into Easter morning.

The ostentatiously "religious" nature of Reagan's re-election campaign has been a surprise.

The confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union has become more tense.

An extraordinary venture of faith along the railroad tracks that carry the White Train.

The main office of Riggs National Bank is located just one short block from the White House.

The result of the siege of Tripoli was the same as it had been in Beirut.

We don't talk about it much. Sometimes we talk about how we're not talking about it.