Mar 17, 2026 | Alabama, Clemency, Death Penalty, Derrick DeBruce, Doug Battle, Eddie Mae Ellison, Holman Correctional Facility, Kay Ivey, Kilby Correctional Facility, Lee Hedgepeth, LuJuan McCants, Matt Schulz, Nancy Palombi, Nitrogen Gas, Poverty, Racism, Sonia Sotomayor, Sonny Burton, The Alabama Solution, Tori Battle |
By Liliana Segura Last week we published an article on the planned execution of Sonny Burton, an horrifying commonplace in Alabama and America. But then, Burton’s death sentence was commuted, as wonderfully celebrated in this article by Liliana Segura in The...
Mar 9, 2026 | Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Derrick DeBruce, Doug Battle, Equal Justice Initiative, Kay Ivey, Racism, Rodney Kennedy, Sonny Burton, Tori Battle |
by William Trollinger Charles “Sonny” Burton. Image via Telemundo Dallas. Maybe, just maybe, by the time you read this, Alabama’s governor Kay Ivey will have done the right thing. Maybe. Let’s start with one basic and very important fact: ...
Sep 17, 2024 | Capital Punishment, College of the Ozarks, Death Penalty, Racial Justice, Robert Jordan, Samuel McDonald, Social Justice, Supreme Court, University of Dayton |
by William Trollinger Flyer for panel discussion, “Is This Justice?: Stories of Death Row” (Tuesday, September 27, 2024), moderated by William Trollinger. Next Tuesday evening the University of Dayton Campus Ministry, the Catholic Mobilizing Network,...
Sep 27, 2022 | Capital Punishment, Christopher Hitchens, College of the Ozarks, Death Penalty, Robert Jordan, Samuel McDonald, Supreme Court |
by William Trollinger Personal Photo of Samuel McDonald. Saturday we attended the wedding of the daughter of dear friends of ours. It was a beautiful autumnal outdoor ceremony. And at the reception we toasted the happy couple, chatted with other close friends,...
Dec 10, 2020 | Brandon Bernard, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Donald Trump, Fratelli Tutti, Lethal Injection, Pope Francis, Pro-Life, Samuel McDonald, William Barr |
by William Trollinger Brandon Bernard, who is scheduled for execution today, December 10, 2020. Photo via The New Yorker. Just when you imagine that the Trump Administration could not get any crueler, it does, even as it is heading out the door. After a seventeen-year...
Oct 2, 2019 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Christian Right, Death Penalty, Flood Geology, Politics, Racial Justice, Righting America, Robert Jeffress, Russell Fuller, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger “san marco florence 320” by Walwyn is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Dallas, is a big fan of the death penalty. As he told Fox and Friends (where he is a regular...
