Andrew Trunsky Arizona is preparing to use hydrogen cyanide, the same poison gas used by the Nazis at Auschwitz, to kill its inmates on death row, documents show. The state’s corrections officials have rehabilitated a gas chamber that has gone unused for 20 years, and have begun to make the deadly gas, according to partially…
Andrew Trunsky South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill Monday requiring death row inmates to choose between the electric chair or a firing squad. Senate Bill 200 is part of a bid to resume executions in the state, according to the Associated Press, after a shortage of lethal injection drugs led to a 10-year pause. McMaster’s office…
Seldom in life is something so blatantly true that a person can make an authoritative statement and believe it right beyond a shadow of a doubt. Some people admittedly do think themselves as always right, but this does not prove their genius—rather, it marks them instead as ignorant of the human experience. Thus, acknowledging the…
Kevin Daley The Supreme Court dealt a temporary setback Friday to the Trump administration’s bid to revive the death penalty after a 17-year hiatus, refusing the government’s request to clear the way for four federal executions a lower court judge put on hold. The high court did not disclose the vote count or its reasoning,…
Chris White Republican presidential candidate Bill Weld said Monday that President Donald Trump should consider himself lucky if he doesn’t face the death penalty for asking a foreign entity to probe his political enemies. The president has gone far beyond merely undermining Democratic institutions, Weld told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. Trump’s decision to ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
Governments do few things well, yet we blithely leave them to try to solve one of humanity’s most intractable problems, punishment of transgressors. Granted, most people tend toward irrationality in this arena, but governments have failed miserably for centuries. The best solution may be to reduce the number of behaviors considered criminal – defining crime…
Donald Trump told the nation that he will direct the Department of Justice to introduce legislation mandating capital punishment for mass murderers, while addressed the nation from the White House, on Monday. This was the President’s first public address concerning this week’s shootings in Dayton OH, El Paso, TX and Gilroy m, CA. After the…
Attorney General William Barr announced on Thursday that he had directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to adopt an addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol effectively reinstating the Federal Death Penalty. “Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people’s representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President,”…
Recently, I watched a movie with my University Students for Life organization called “Dead Man Walking“. The story of the film is based on the book of the same title, by Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic Nun and a Sister of Saint Joseph of Medaille. She is seeking to get a convicted man named…
An elected official in the state of Alabama has expressed interest and publicly advocated for the public hanging of anyone convicted killing a law enforcement officer. Jim Zeigler, the State Auditor of Alabama said in a statement released to the media that he would like to see the anyone convicted of killing a police officer…