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An Argentinean woman has brought charges against her adoptive parents for kidnapping her and falsifying her identity during Argentina's "Dirty War" . While several other cases have dealt with the abduction of children ...

The Constitutional Council of France Thursday approved a controversial amendment to an immigration law that would allow voluntary DNA testing to establish family ties between recent immigrants and relatives already living in...

The French parliament passed a strict immigration bill Tuesday that requires language and cultural knowledge tests, as well as optional DNA testing, for immigrants who want to join their families in France. The bill...

France's National Assembly , the lower house of the French parliament, passed a new immigration bill aimed at increasing the ratio of skilled to unskilled immigrants entering France by...

France's National Assembly , the lower house of the French parliament, Tuesday debated a new immigration bill proposing tightened requirements for foreigners seeking to join immigrant relatives in...

Former FBI Director William S. Sessions Wednesday applauded recent efforts to extend DNA testing, especially for the benefit of prisoners facing the death penalty. In a JURIST op-ed, Sessions said that a proposal by New York Gov....

JURIST Special Guest Columnist and former FBI Director William S. Sessions says that Governor Eliot Spitzer's recent proposal to expand the New York DNA database and an Ohio Supreme Court ruling liberalizing DNA testing for inmates should be welcomed as...

The American Bar Association death penalty assessment team recommended a moratorium on the death penalty in Alabama in a report released Sunday that cited major flaws in the state's administration...

A California proposal for a two-year death penalty moratorium hit a permanent stumbling block in the California Assembly's Appropriations Committee Thursday. The moratorium proposal intended to suspend executions in California until...

DNA test results released Thursday by the State of Virginia have apparently confirmed the guilt of Roger Keith Coleman , who was convicted of the 1981 rape and murder of his sister-in-law and was...