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A Gallup poll reported in September 2013 that 80 percent of Americans blamed mass shootings on a failure of the mental health system to identify individuals who are a danger to others.

Features true stories that look at what it means to be condemned, considering such examples as an ancient redwood tree scheduled to be chopped down and a wrongly imprisoned man freed by DNA evidence.

Between 1976 and 2013, 1,329 defendants have been executed under the death penalty in the United States.

The history of punishing criminals is a long and gruesome one. In 620 BC, a Greek named Draco wrote a legal code that punished almost every crime with death, except murder! For that, criminals were exiled.

Profiles the life and criminal career of Arnold Rothstein, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series.

Presents an investigation into the tumultuous social, political, and economic landscapes of present-day Brazil through the story of drug cartel kingpin Nem, tracing his rise from an everyday parent to one of the nation's most wanted criminals.

Examines the lives and crimes of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

In 1933 Prohibition gave rise to the American gangster. Local cops were unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit of criminals and kidnappers and there was no national police force.

A robber has struck at Cafe Marzipan, Pleasant Valley's best bakery, three times in the past year and the police chief once again calls upon the super sleuthing skills of best friends Jerry and Maya to help him catch the tricky thief.

What’s going on at the art museum in Pleasant Valley? Did the Egyptian mummy really come to life after 3,000 years? The terrified night watchman claims that he saw the mummy walking around the museum.

Lists and defines legal terms, law enforcement terms, medical and psychiatric terms, weapons, nicknames of prisons, criminal slang, names of gangs and terrorist groups, drug culture slang, and other words relating to crime.

There are more school shootings and public massacres than anyone wants to believe.

Criminal profilers have the challenging task of building a profile, or description, of an unknown criminal offender.

When crime scene investigators (CSIs) are called to the location of a murder, they document what they see in detail and carefully collect the evidence.