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Buddy Stouffer’s Execution Was the Last of 2021. Will It Be the Last to Be Proved an Error?

Shane Claiborne
January 10, 2022
General, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice
On Thursday (Dec. 9), Oklahoma executed Bigler “Buddy” Stouffer, a 79-year-old deeply committed Christian who has maintained his innocence since being convicted of murder in 1985. It was the last execution sche...

Buddy Stouffer’s Execution Was the Last of 2021. Will It Be the Last to Be Proved an Error?

Shane Claiborne
December 14, 2021
General, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice
On Thursday (Dec. 9), Oklahoma executed Bigler “Buddy” Stouffer, a 79-year-old deeply committed Christian who has maintained his innocence since being convicted of murder in 1985. It was the last execution sche...

Julius Jones was spared by a governor who prayed. Let’s all now pray to end the death penalty.

Shane Claiborne
November 23, 2021
General, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice
The irony cannot be missed. Christians all over the world were praying that a Christian governor would not execute a fellow Christian brother who is almost assuredly innocent.

The Wrong Debate: On Alabama’s New Gas Chamber

Chris Brown
September 14, 2021
Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice
As states grapple with how to resume killing, the only debate seems to be over the method.

Overturn Dylann Roof’s Death Sentence — for Me, Not for Him

Sharon Risher
June 2, 2021
Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice, Race
Without a death sentence, as I understand, there is just one appeal, after which we never have to hear the killer’s name again.

A Former Confederate State Just Voted To Abolish Its Death Penalty

Shane Claiborne
February 6, 2021
Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Race
But it’s worth celebrating Virginia, the “home of the Confederacy,” as the first state in the old Confederate South to abolish the death penalty. The two facts are related, because the death penalty cannot be separated from our history of race and slavery in America. 

Is Killing Lisa Montgomery the Best Version of Justice We Have?

Shane Claiborne
January 11, 2021
Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice
None of us is above reproach and none of us is beyond redemption. That is a core truth of the Christian faith. And it is a truth that is undermined every time we execute someone.

Being the Other Voice

Chris Brown
October 15, 2020
Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice
Whatever motivated the shouts and signals from so many vehicles, it became clear to me in that moment that even if I knew nothing else about Jesus, I would rather be with the people of peace gathered on that corner than with the angry masses calling for death.

Trusting Systems With the Irreversible Power of Death

Shane Claiborne
June 3, 2020
General, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice
One can only hope that executing people is one of the things we don’t want to return to.

When Killing Is the Priority

Chris Brown
May 27, 2020
General, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice
How does a state that is reportedly 77% Christian choose to carry out the ritualized killing of a likely innocent man in the middle of a pandemic crisis?
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