It is hard to breathe — lungs gasping for air and eyes fuzzy from caked-on sweat — no water in sight, only a beating sun. This is not the story of a damned sailor; it is the reality thousands of inmates...

Would you rather serve a sentence in a Texas prison or be subject to the brazen bull? For a brief background, the brazen bull was an ancient Greek torture device, and its use was as follows: “The condemned...

In the state of Texas, which has a reputation for being a small government safe haven, serious governmental overreach is occurring. Ever since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, Texas has led the...