Oct 13, 2025 | Capital Punishment, Carl Graham, Jr., Catholicism, Death Row Support Project, Lance Shockley, Mike Kehoe, Pope Leo XIV, Robert Jordan, Samuel McDonald |
by William Trollinger Lance Shockley, photographed by Jeremy Weis, via Word&Way. As I write this on Monday morning, Lance Shockley is scheduled to be killed at Potosi Correctional Institution by the state of Missouri at 6pm on Tuesday for the 2005 murder of...
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,...
Sep 24, 2019 | Capital Punishment, Christian Century, Death Penalty, Robert Jordan, Samuel McDonald, Uncategorized |
by William Trollinger Personal photo of Samuel McDonald. So much time has passed, and yet September 24 remains very painful. Twenty-two years ago today, I found myself sitting with five other civilians and four security guards in a tiny, cramped room in the bowels of...
