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Capital Punishment is Ambiguously Inadmissible

Kenneth Craycraft, OSV News In late September, the state of Tennessee attempted and failed to execute Christa Pike, after 31 years in prison. The news description of the botched.....

The Guardian view on the death penalty: Christa Pike’s execution was botched, but cruelty is inherent | Editorial

Three-quarters of nations have rightly abolished capital punishment in law or practice, but killing by the state has surged in the USWhat is the kindest way to kill? That’s the que...

Pope Leo blasts capital punishment as 'violating dignity' in wake of botched Christa Pike execution

Pike was sentenced to death after murdering 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995

Death penalty handed down for brutal Tanzania’s Serengeti machete killing

The High Court Sub-Registry in Musoma has sentenced Ndisi Maswi to death by hanging after finding him guilty of murdering his neighbour, Ms Suzana Zacharia, by inflicting multiple...

John Doyle: If life has infinite value, then murderers must die

The death penalty remains a deeply divisive issue among Christians. Some hold that it is a biblically justifiable punishment, proven by Old Testament endorsements of capital punish...

What do Britain’s death-penalty cheerleaders have to say about Christa Pike? | Maya Foa

Her harrowing botched execution is a reminder of why we must not even entertain the idea of restoring capital punishmentMaya Foa is the CEO of the human rights charity ReprieveIn r...

Nothing Gained

Capital punishment is once again under public scrutiny. First came the botched execution in Tennessee of Christa Pike on Sept. 30. Then the U.S Department … Continue reading →

The Execution Will Be Televised

The Fort Hood terrorist is scheduled to go before a firing squad.

Christa Pike Shows It’s Time To Bring Back Firing Squads

The death penalty represents true justice if the crime is heinous enough, and thus the firing squad, delivered quickly upon the condemned, represents the best method for dispensing...

Burkina Faso Restores Death Penalty

Click to expand Image Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pickup truck on the road fro...

A botched execution and plans for one in public show the US is conflicted about capital punishment

Americans have long been divided over the death penalty, with nearly half of states banning capital punishment outright and just a handful of others carrying out most of the nation...

Botched Execution a Reminder of Horror of Death Penalty

Why the Death Penalty Is a Sore Point for Papal Authority

Joseph Shaw, First Things To all but the crustiest reactionaries among Western elites, plus some populists, the statement might well seem obvious. It is not obvious, however, for...

Capital punishment is surging in the US – but after Christa Pike’s botched execution, what is its future?

Trump has used the full might of the presidency to supercharge executions, but an avalanche of mishaps has put the system’s flaws in the spotlightIt took more than an hour to estab...

"One of the worst killers": Trump calls death penalty "very worthy way" to execute Fort Hood shooter

Washington DC [US], October 10 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) described the death penalty as 'a very worthy way' of executing former US Army Major Nidal Ha...

Endless Plea Deals Prove The Death Penalty Is A Powerful Deterrent

Without the threat of the death penalty, prosecutors would lose a powerful incentive for defendants to negotiate.

Burkina Faso reinstates death penalty: Justice ministry

The last recorded execution in Burkina Faso took place in 1988. The decision marks a significant shift in the country’s criminal justice system and raises renewed questions about h...

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: Does the Botched Killing of a Woman Stand the Biblical Test?

Christa Pike, 50, was rushed to a Nashville hospital after surviving two doses of pentobarbital intended to kill her for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, committed w...

Botched Execution Makes Powerful Case Against Death Penalty

SADOW: LA must resume distasteful but necessary task

As unpleasant as it might be, the show must go on, in Texas, Tennessee, and Louisiana, in order to save lives. Controversy has surrounded carrying out capital punishment as of late...

Why the Death Penalty Can Be Pro-Life

by Victor Joecks at CDN - The value of something is reflected by the punishment given for destroying it. Two very different death penalty cases have been in the news recently. Eac...

Texas executes death-row prisoner over 2005 triple killing

Ker’Sean Ramey, 41, died by lethal injection, the sixth person to be executed by Texas officials this yearA man found guilty of fatally shooting three people during a 2005 attempte...

Texas executes man for a triple killing, days after other man convicted in case was put to death

A man was executed Wednesday evening in Texas for a triple killing committed during an attempted robbery at a rural home, one week after the other man convicted in the case was put...

Pope Leo blasts death penalty as US plans to livestream execution

The pontiff's tweet followed comments by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, criticizing the public firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.