The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

Well, in my job, I avoid political commentary.

I think maybe the people in elected positions are more interested in preserving their jobs than in doing the best job possible.

It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

New malaria cases fell by 21 percent between 2010 and 2015 worldwide, and malaria death rates fell by 29 percent in the same period. Yet, though malaria is preventable and treatable, it is still claiming too many lives around the world.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.