There’s No ‘Moral’ Death Penalty

There’s No Moral Death Penalty

Photo by Maria Oswalt As a long-time death penalty abolitionist, I’ve often compared the death penalty in America to a train with no brakes: Once the machinery starts moving, it becomes extraordinarily difficult to stop. But the real problem is that the train should never have been built. Today, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Arkansas are experimenting with nitrogen gas executions, a method officials claim is more humane. But fr…

There’s No ‘Moral’ Death Penalty

The death penalty has evolved for nearly two centuries, but there’s only one real measure of progress: whether we finally choose to stop killing.