The most common and most cogent argument against capital punishment is that sooner or later, innocent people will get killed, because of mistakes or flaws in the justice system.

Justice requires that society be protected from those who commit grievous crimes. But justice also calls for humility.

Among the dozens of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day was one calling for a dramatic expansion of the use of the death penalty. The order utilizes falsehoods about ...

A search of your newspaper's website shows 70 entries over more than five years about Gov. Jeff Landry’s quest to reactivate capital punishment. Once again, he is invoking some contractual ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

It is not clear to me how much of Jody Bottum’s moral analysis in ” Blood for Blood ” and ” They Did It ” is meant to apply only to sad case of the person just executed and how much is meant to apply ...