Arizona’s law banning nearly all abortion was written nearly 50 years before it became a state, when under 7,000 people lived in the territory

New York judge William Thompson Howell wrote the 500-page “Howell Code” in 1864, covering topics including dueling and accidental homicides by ax. Read More

​New York judge William Thompson Howell wrote the 500-page “Howell Code” in 1864, covering topics including dueling and accidental homicides by ax. Fortune | FORTUNE