Justice Returns

The nation's most prominent retributivist advocate for the death penalty weighs in on the resumption of federal executions.

The Whispers Of Strangers

Today is my 76th birthday," the letter began. "Unassisted and by my own free will, I have chosen to take my final passage." Suicide. My friend Frances died in a cold, impersonal hotel room after taking an overdose of sleeping pills, with a plastic bag tied over her head suffocating the life out of her body.