In this modern perspective, the death penalty expresses not the divine judgment on objective evil but rather the collective anger of the group. |
He is outspoken in advocacy of the death penalty, an issue over which I have respectfully jousted with him twice. |
Those people who are against the death penalty as a matter of principle are not eligible for jury service. |
That gives a total of one hundred and six countries that have abolished the death penalty in practice. |
They escaped the death penalty by only a couple of months as abolition took effect four weeks before their arrest. |
Wearing another hat, he is also well known in these columns for his advocacy of the death penalty. |