Overturning a Louisiana law that allows for the death penalty in cases of child rape, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the death sentence can only be applied when the crime involves the death of another person. The court also dramatically cut the amount of punitive damages in the 1989 Exxon-Valdez oil spill. Our guest is Lyle Denniston of Scotus-Blog-Dot-Com.
The West African country of Sierra Leone is one of the poorest in the world. Life expectancy is around 40 years, income inequality is high and the after affects of a recent civil war still reverberate. That war forced more than 15,000 children to fight as soldiers and now many are suffering from depression and anxiety. We speak with Dr. Suzan Song, a psychiatrist working with the Harvard School of Public Health to deliver mental health care to these adolescents.
We're used to China as a rising economic giant, but what kind of military power is it? China does have some nuclear weapons, but its military isn't capable