Tag: capital punishment

A century and a half ago, America came out of slavery. It was perhaps not literally true, as Abraham Lincoln said, that every drop drawn…

Feb. 13 was a red-letter day in Pennsylvania. On that day, newly elected Gov. Thomas Wolf declared a moratorium on executions in the Commonwealth. It…

The Japanese are nothing if not stubborn. It took a visit from Hiroo Onoda’s former commanding officer, by then a retired bookseller, to persuade the…