Criminal Justice

Tobias Winright 4-01-2007
What does the cross tell us about the ethics of capital punishment?
Rose Marie Berger 4-01-2006
The Guantanamo prison is beyond the pale.
James Ferguson 4-01-2006

In February a New York court found Iraqi-American Rafil Dhafir, 57, guilty of violating U.S. sanctions against Iraq and of money laundering.

Ray McGovern 3-01-2006
What to do when a president places himself above the law?

Shanti Sellz and Daniel Strauss, both 23, face felony charges for aiding people in the Arizona desert who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. Their appeal to have the case against them dismissed was denied in January. Sellz and Strauss are volunteers with No More Deaths, a Tucson, Arizona-based coalition of faith-based groups that advocates for immigrant reform and provides food, water, and medical care to migrants crossing the desert.

Rose Marie Berger 3-01-2006

Twenty-five Christian peacemakers, members of Witness Against Torture, walked 50 miles from Santiago, Cuba, to the gates of the controversial U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay in December to protest the treatment of prisoners detained there.

David Whettstone 7-01-2001

Jesus on the cross is best viewed as what that event concretely was, an imperial execution," says Mark Lewis Taylor in The Executed God.

Will Campbell 11-01-1999
It's time to admit: We've lost the War on Drugs