Capital Matters is a recurring series by Jordan Steiker that covers federal constitutional regulation of the death penalty ...

He started a fire outside Piqua High School on purpose, then assaulted the police officers who showed up to arrest him for ...

About 2000 men, women, and teenagers currently wait on America's "death row." Their time grows shorter as federal and state courts increasingly ratify death penalty laws, allowing executions to ...

Corporal punishment has declined so rapidly in the United States in the last 15 years that many people think it’s practically nonexistent in modern American public schools. To the contrary, more than ...

Trump's order rolls back guidance from previous Democratic presidents aimed at reducing racial disparities in school disciplinary actions such as suspensions and expulsions. The order says nothing ...

Across time and cultures, facial mutilation has been a preferred form of punishment for various crimes, but why?

Jefferson County father Brian Flynn was disturbed by the map that popped up in his Instagram feed. It showed states that have banned corporal punishment in schools and those where it’s still allowed.

Behavioral psychology says that punishment is an ineffective motivational tool, because its effects are only temporary. While punishment may suppress undesirable behavior temporarily, it fails to ...

Over the past week, Adrian Peterson, the Minnesota Vikings' all-world running back and one of the NFL's biggest stars, has become the face of corporal punishment in America. Peterson turned himself in ...

The punishment already inflicted by the majority on such a one is enough; you should now relent and support him so that he may not be crushed by too great a weight of sorrow. 2 Cor. 2:6-7 Indulgences ...

The NFL made its final decision on a potential punishment on the play that ended Patrick Mahomes' 2025 season prematurely.