Voices: Jimmy Carter
“It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty,” former president Jimmy Carter wrote in a 2012 op-ed titled “Show Death Penalty the Door”
“It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty,” former president Jimmy Carter wrote in a 2012 op-ed titled “Show Death Penalty the Door”
“I have an obligation. I have a charge to keep. I don’t get tired. I won’t sell out. I won’t be bought out.”
A story that has stuck with me over the decades comes from a school civics text. A criminal came into the town of Milwaukee and
The second trend which has been percolating beneath the surface for more than two decades is a recognition of the full cost of the death