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Justice for Serial Killer Gary Ridgway Means Death

Alexander Marriott | 12 December 2003
If Gary Ridgway isn't given the death penalty, they will argue, why should anyone else?

What Makes an American?

Michelle Malkin | 4 July 2003
The custom of granting automatic citizenship at birth to children of tourists and temporary workers such as Hamdi, tourists, and to countless 'anchor babies' delivered by illegal aliens on American soil, undermines the integrity of citizenship -- not to mention national security.

Long Live the Death Penalty

Michael Hurd | 20 February 2003
I wouldn't support the death penalty unless the most rigorous of standards were applied to enacting it. If those standards failed in Illinois, the standards and the officials should be blamed -- not the death penalty itself.

Death Penalty by the Numbers

Jeff Jacoby | 29 December 2002
Inasmuch as black murderers commit about half of all homicides in the United States, the numbers make it clear that the death penalty is imposed with disproportionate severity not on blacks, but on whites.

Straw Men vs. Capital Punishment

Jeff Jacoby | 20 July 2001
It is common knowledge that Americans support capital punishment -- overwhelmingly so in McVeigh's case.

McVeigh and the Death Penalty

Thomas Sowell | 18 July 2001
Sometimes those who oppose capital punishment talk about "the sanctity of human life." The issue of capital punishment comes up only because the murderer has already violated the sanctity of human life. Are we to say that his life has more sanctity than the life or lives he has taken? Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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