Clemency hearings for Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie will take place in the coming weeks as the condemned man’s ...

Lawyers additionally noted that a geneticist diagnosed Ritchie with Partial Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (pFAS), “meaning his brain damage limits Ben’s functioning to that similar to a person with ...

One of two Calgary brothers who kidnapped a teenager from a bus stop and raped her repeatedly more than a decade ago made a ...

In announcing new autism prevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services ...

When the state of Alaska seized a bootlegger’s plane, it did not violate the U.S. Constitution’s excessive fines clause, the ...

Study co-author Larry Burd, a professor of pediatrics at the University of North Dakota who now primarily studies fetal alcohol syndrome ... and the definition then was very different.

His sentence expired on Friday, meaning he was no longer under any parole ... court heard that both brothers have severe FASD (fetal alcohol spectrum disorder). The prosecutor at the time told ...