Highlights include Star Wars, provocateur Nagisa Oshima’s Death By Hanging, AFI’s New African Film Festival, and a whole lot ...

But through the lens of the 50 films nominated for at least one Academy Award this year — features, shorts, documentaries, and international films — the film industry is still humming with talent.

[1] The most notorious death execution in BC was about 399 BC when the Greek philosopher Socrates was required to drink poison for heresy and corruption of youth.[2] Mosaic Law codified many ...

Oscar predictions and picks in the races for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short: is it No Other Land or Porcelain War?

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba launched a "100 Days of Action" initiative to combat gun violence with a $150,000 investment in community organizations. The initiative aims to reduce gun ...

IT COMES JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS SCHEDULED EXECUTION. WDSU REPORTER JASMINE FRANKLIN IS LIVE TRACKING NEW REACTION TONIGHT. JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED ...

Days before his execution warrant was signed, doctors had recommended Sepulvado enter hospice care, his attorneys said. He was hospitalized last week in New Orleans, they said, and returned Friday ...

Coldly and without regrets, her husband’s archfoes in far-off Katanga province had just proclaimed that Patrice Lumumba was dead and buried deep. The Katangese, who defied world opinion for ...

A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson died days after a March date was scheduled for his execution by nitrogen gas. Christopher ...

ANGOLA, La. (WVUE) - Louisiana’s first inmate scheduled for execution in the past 15 years has died of illness and natural causes, less than a month ahead of his scheduled death, his attorney ...

(Photo credit: Jarvis DeBerry/Louisiana Illuminator) Christopher Sepulvado, the 81-year-old man who was facing execution next month for the 1992 murder of his stepson, died overnight at Louisiana ...