Ethical Issues: Capital Punishment

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a two-ton truck bomb that felled the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 p...

A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right of victims as retributionIrans cri...

An Open Letters Monthly Best Nonfiction Book of the YearAmericas criminal justice system is broken. The United States punishes at a higher per capi...

The brutal murders of young Devon and Damon Routier in the early morning hours of June 6, 1996, put their motherDarlie Routierat the heart of one o...

'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no ...

A first-hand account of the death penalty's wholly destructive nature. In Witness, Lyle C. May offers a scathing critique of shifts in sentencing l...

A rigorous and defiant collection that subverts contemporary discourse and representations of incarceration, of hip-hop, and of Asian American cult...

In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions d...

Tracing the history of female crime and execution from 1726 to 1955, Women and the Noose presents the cases of over fifty women who met their end o...

An insightful and gripping account that will take you into the dark but fascinating world of a Victorian executioner. Stewart P. EvansBetween 1884...

During the two decades following entry into World War II, nearly 30 million men and women served in or worked for the United States military. Tens ...