Opponents of capital punishment are extremely selective about the cases they make into public crusades. Strategically, that's smart; you don't want to lead your argument with "unsympathetic persons." But logically, it's problematic.

The November 22 Republican presidential candidates’ debate, sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute (where I am a resident fellow) and the Heritage Foundation, and presented by CNN, was probably the most substantive and serious presidential debate of this election cycle.

Executing McVeigh isa way to affirm Americans' belief that life is a gift and that those who snuff it out should not continue to enjoy that gift.

The Timothy McVeigh case failed to provoke the usual outcries against the death penalty, or sympathy for the defendant.

A book review of Elie Wiesel's Night, an autobiographical account of the Holocaust.

While the tragic attack on Gabby Giffords may or may not have been caused by over-the-top rhetoric, there is still an undeniable problem with the poisonous discourse in today's politics.

Review of Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions, by Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell

Last week, for the first time in what seems like years, American politics got serious.