It’s an investment.” Turner came to SMU in 1995, the final year of SWC football, when the Mustangs were still reeling from the death penalty and didn't have an on-campus stadium. It's a full ...

Editor of United Methodist Insight says the lawsuit involving SMU and the United Methodist Church is the latest in a ...

SMU finished No. 12 in the final AP Poll of the 2024 season, its highest ranking in the final poll since 1984. The Mustangs made the College Football Playoff after an 11-win season. The 11-win season ...

SMU may have come up four wins short of hoisting the national championship trophy this season, but the now-completed 2024 college football season will be remembered with the Mustangs having a key role ...

Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said. Biden is commuting the death ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

Hartzell joins SMU after the 30-year presidency of R. Gerald Turner, who recovered the university from the NCAA’s “death penalty” and brought the Bush presidential library to Dallas.

The latest death penalty news from The Texas Tribune. By Ayden Runnels Jan. 30, 2025 Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to ...

DALLAS (SMU) – Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the leading cause of epilepsy-related mortality. Although the underlying mechanisms have historically remained shrouded in mystery, new ...

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is unveiling a new set of bills that could have child sexual predators facing the death penalty. "If you are raping someone, if you're molesting someone ...

India has in the past voted against a draft resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on the abolition of the death penalty. The death penalty has long been a point of contention ...

Days earlier, just before Christmas, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the executions of 37 prisoners, responding to pleas from Pope Francis and other death penalty opponents. Three infamous ...