California
One look at 1994 birth statistics shows the diversity of the San Fernando Valley, where great disparities exist in the birthrate, infant death rate and percentage of underage mothers.
April 6, 1997
Science & Medicine
What are the most common ways to die in America?
June 29, 2016
Alua Arthur is a death doula, someone who helps people prepare for death, much as birth doulas help mothers prepare to give birth. She is Black, and the death of George Floyd hit hard for her and other Black death doulas, who saw in his death the antithesis of the “good death” they are trying to foster. She and five other women hosted a talk: “Sayin’ It Louder; A Conversation about a Good Death in a Racist Society.”
June 25, 2020
Justice: The decline comes as violent crime falls. D.A.s are more selective in capital cases.
June 10, 2002
World & Nation
Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev contend the constitutionality of the federal death penalty should be reexamined following a botched execution in Oklahoma last week.
May 7, 2014
Business
Deaths from viruses, bacteria and other infectious disease have long been overlooked on death certificates.
Oct. 22, 2020
Politics
Despite waning jury support, the attorney general wants more federal death penalties.
Sept. 29, 2004
Cigarette smoking is responsible for at least 345,962 cancer deaths in the U.S. each year, according to a new study.
June 15, 2015
In 2015 and again in 2017, Riverside County held the grim distinction of sending more people to death row than any other county in the nation.
Dec. 13, 2018
The COVID-19 death rate in the U.S. fell by nearly 50% in 2022, a decline credited to widespread vaccinations as well as a rise in natural immunity.
May 4, 2023