The death penalty

Is the death penalty just and ethical? Why I support the death penalty / Edward Koch ; Justice is not served with the death penalty / Raymond Lesniak ; Christian doctrine supports capital punishment / Bryan Fisher ; Christian doctrine does not support capital punishment / United States Conference of Bishops

Does the death penalty serve the public good? The death penalty deters crime / David Mulhausen ; The death penalty isn't the answer to crime woes / Jack Weil ; The cost of the death penalty outweighs its benefits to society / Julie Delcour ; The death penalty is essential, and its cost is irrelevant / Derek Schmidt ; Death penalty would end punishment of victim's family / Irl Stambaugh and Gary Stambaugh ; The death penalty does not fulfill survivors' needs for closure / Susan Bandes, as told to Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights

Is the death penalty applied fairly? The capital punishment system is still racially biased / David A. Love ; Racial bias in the capital punishment system has decreased over time / Charles Lane ; DNA testing reveals serious problems in the capital punishment system / Radley Balko ; DNA testing cannot solve fundamental flaws in the capital punishment system / Juan Roberto Meléndez-Colón ; People with mental illness should be exempt from the death penalty / Susannah Sheffer ; Many people with mental illness should not be exempt from the death penalty / Sam Vaknin

Should the death penalty be abolished or reformed? Death penalty is dead wrong : it's time to outlaw capital punishment in America; completely / Mario M. Cuomo ; The death penalty should not be abolished / Bruce Fein ; Why death-penalty opponents can't win / Jonah Goldberg ; Executions should stop until the capital punishment process is reformed / Michael Hall ; The death penalty cannot be reformed and should be abolished / Richard C. Dieter ; Incarceration for life without parole could replace the death penalty / Robert Johnson and Sandra McGunigall-Smith.