Law & Society

In an Interview with PBS, Mark Emmert, President of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), told interviewer Tavis Smiley that the organization has not yet decided whether the 'death penalty,' is the correct punishment for the Penn State University cover-up scandal in the Jerry Sandusky, former football coach convicted of child sex-abuse, case. However, Emmert says that the option is not "off the table," according to the PBS interview.

The former South African president and anti-apartheid fighter Nelson Mandela celebrates his 94th birthday with his family on Wednesday.

Planned Parenthood has filed a federal suit on Monday in an Arizona Federal Court against the state of Arizona for its new abortion law, which blocks funding to its clinics.