Capital Punishment Archives

03 Aug

From the Newsletter, Latest, U.S. Politics

From the Newsletter | When the State Serves Death

August 11, 2023
By Noah Phillips
0 comments

This week, Moment covers two planned executions. In October 2018, Robert Bowers killed 11 Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburg, PA, the deadliest...

02 Aug

Latest

Texas to Execute Jewish Man on World Day Against the Death Penalty

August 9, 2023
By Martine Schwan
8 comments

When Michael Zoosman first reached out to Jedidiah Murphy in 2021, he knew very little about his soon-to-be pen pal other than that he had been on death row in Livingston, Texas, for 20 years and that he was a practicing Jew.

03 Nov

Culture, Latest, Religion

Is Society the Angel of Death? Elie Wiesel's Take

May 8, 2012
By elisniv
8 comments

by Daniel Kieval "Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor." (Leviticus 19:16) In an address given last week at Wesleyan University, Elie...