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...
Sep 30, 2019 | American Exceptionalism, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, History, Poverty, Racial Justice, Samuel McDonald |
by William Trollinger Potosi Correctional Center. Photo (c) 2007 by Wikimedia Commons user Americasroof. CC BY-SA 3.0 On the evening of September 23, 1997 – before I was unceremoniously ushered into the observation booth in Missouri’s Potosi Correctional Center to...
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...
