To do that, the psychologist administers a test — the PCL-R, or Psychopathy Checklist-Revised — designed to measure whether that inmate is a psychopath. This test has incredible power in the American ...

Robert L. Roberson III was scheduled for execution in Texas on October 16. He won a stay, but the case isn't over. He was convicted of the murder of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis. The ...

In the mid-1960s, a psychiatrist devised radical therapies to cure psychopaths, including having them strip naked, sit in a circle and engage in 'crotch eyeballing'. Another treated a woman who ...