Frederica Mathewes-Green 'How many of you are both pro-life and against the death penalty?' On a Nov ...

Rose Marie Berger A dozen years after Ruben Cantu was executed by the state of Texas for capital murder, the only witness to Cantu’s all ...

Heidi Schlumpf When you're Christian, progressive, and "pro-life," voting your conscience is often easier said than done. ...

Jim Wallis There are millions of votes at stake in this liberal miscalculation. The meeting room w ...

Danny Duncan Collum A political realignment in this country isn't possible until we heal the cultural breach that afflicts us. ...

Rose Marie Berger Gov. George Ryan cleared Illinois' death row in January when he commuted 171 condemned inmates' sentences in t ...

as a civilized and appropriate form of justice. The 18 "death" songs—written by the likes of Hank ...

Meg Kiekhaefer We were in France when the news came of the terrorist acts of Sept. We were in France when th ...

Rose Marie Berger Susannah Hunter "Thank you for your letter expressing concern ab ...

Rose Marie Berger We killed McVeigh to make it clear that he was not like us. One of the most disturbing facts ...

Chris Byrd It's easy to defend the death penalty in the abstract, but much more difficult when you have to participate in death. ...

David Whettstone Jesus on the cross is best viewed as what that event concretely was, an imperial execution," says Mark Lewis Taylor ...

Susannah Hunter The moratorium movement is changing the politics of death. Who are all these people passing mo ...

Rose Marie Berger Susannah Hunter Convicted murderer and gang leader Stanley "Took ...

Glen H. Stassen How the church became entangled in death—and the way out. When you look at the history of the ...

Cardinal Roger Mahony It's time for a new ethic---justice without vengeance. It’s time for a new ethic—ju ...

Danny Duncan Collum For the past 25 years, executions have taken place somewhere in America almost every week. They happened in the dead o ...

Ryan Beiler Finding himself in agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union and at odds with Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson said " ...

Kari Jo Verhulst Benetton's ads open eyes. Can they say lives? Travel the world over and American-generat ...

Ryan Beiler Ninety-eight people were executed in the United States last year—30 more than in 1998 and the most since 1951. ...

Andrew Schleicher The Supreme Court upheld the death penalty in June, but that didn’t deter the Abolitionist Action Committee from holding ...

Julie Polter Seeking common ground on abortion clinic activism. Marilyn Cohen is director of the Emma Goldman ...

Naomi Wolf Frederica Mathewes-Green Getting to Disagreement. Dialogue that has an impa ...

Carol Fennelly The death penalty is nothing more than revenge. Recently the world looked on in horror as 22 Rw ...

Joe Nangle "The hardest part in this is seeing the pain, not only the pain of those I love, but the pain of everybody involved. ...

Julie Polter  When President Clinton vetoed a bill this spring that would have banned a specific method of late-term abortion, many peopl ...

Monica Kennedy I am going to begin this story, in a sense, where it ended, and where it will never end. I am g ...

Julie Polter Hearing the facts about the death penalty. This spring, New York Gov. George Pataki removed Bron ...

Rose Marie Berger The challenge of Dead Man Walking In Oscar Hijuelos' new book, Mr. Ives' Christ ...

to mothers under 18, children born to mothers currently on welfare, children born to mothers who previously ...

Deanna Wylie Mayer "A group of women who have had abortions will be meeting" read the sign on the women's room wall. Immed ...

Shelley Douglass How people responded to the December 30 murders of abortion clinic workers in Massachusetts depended in large part on th ...

Frederica Matthewes-Green For years I scoffed at the idea of violence outside abortion clinics. Sure, plenty of violence was going on ins ...