Entries by Lani Lamoureux

On Veterans Day, the Death Penalty Information Center will release a new report about vet­er­ans and the death penal­ty, explor­ing the last­ing effects of mil­i­tary ser­vice and explain­ing why mil­i­tary expe­ri­ences mat­ter when vet­er­ans inter­act with the legal sys­tem. This arti­cle shares the sto­ry of one death-sen­­­tenced vet­er­an, Frederick Mendoza. Frederick Mendoza enlist­ed in the Marine Corps in 1967 as a basic rifle­man and served over 18 months in Vietnam. He was on the…

Religious belief has always been at the cen­ter of debate about the death penal­ty – cit­ed both in sup­port and in oppo­si­tion. The often-cit­ed​“eye for an eye” Biblical phrase has led many to assume that reli­gious belief requires sup­port for the death penal­ty. But a clos­er look tells a dif­fer­ent sto­ry. Fact: The Majority of Judeo-Christian Religious Organizations Oppose the Death Penalty While it is true that peo­ple who iden­ti­fy as Atheists and Agnostics tend to be less in…