James Coddington was put to death in Oklahoma on Aug. 25 for the 1997 murder of his friend and coworker, Albert Hale. His was the first of the state’s planned 25 executions in the next could of years.

Witnessing is an important act in and of itself. The gaze of others can be pressuring and liberating, validating and troubling; knowing others are witnessing can also be cathartic. The relationship ...

Over the long term, being a bystander of high-school violence can be as damaging to mental health as being directly bullied, a new study finds. Students who witness violence in school at age 13 are at ...

For victims of domestic violence—the physical attacks, emotional maltreatment, and other abuse endured are certain to take a toll on their well-being. However, while the horrors of abuse are apparent ...

For many of us living with chronic illness, pain is an unwelcome fact of life. Perhaps it ebbs and flows; perhaps it remains constant—but the experience of pain changes people. Elaine Scarry talks ...

The psychological impact of domestic violence on primary victims, that is those who endure and live through the maltreatment, physical attacks, and other forms of abuse, is extremely worrisome. It can ...

Editor's note: This conversation includes the sound of gunfire and graphic descriptions of violence against children and teenagers. Dr. Nick Maynard has spent 15 years traveling from Oxford, England, ...

This article theorizes the politics of witnessing and grief in the context of the embodied experience of cows raised for dairy in the Pacific Northwestern United States. Bearing witness to the mundane ...