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1. Mike Farrell -- Death Penalty
   Farrell, who writes and speaks frequently in his tireless advocacy against capital punishment, is the president of Death Penalty Focus. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research and dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives.
2. Capital Punishment -- Death Penalty
   Capital punishment was written into God’s will for the Jewish nation in the Old Testament. The death penalty was a viable form of punishment for at least sixteen separate offenses. Some people have misunderstood one of the Ten Commandments which says, “You shall not kill” (Exodus 20:13). They have assumed that the law forbade taking human life under any circumstances. But God required the death penalty for some sixteen crimes. Therefore, the commandment would have been better translated, “You shall not murder.” In other words, the command was a prohibition against an individual taking the law into his own hands and exercising personal vengeance.
3. Cintas -- Penalties
   In a historic citation, OSHA has proposed a penalty of $2.78 million for violations in Cintas’s Tulsa facility. This fine is more than four times larger than the previous largest penalty in the service sector for health and safety violations. Safety inspectors reported 46 illegal hazards in the Tulsa laundry—including 42 “willful” violations. At least one citation was for not protecting workers from the equipment involved in Mr. Torres Gomez’s death. Willful violations are committed with “intentional disregard” for the law or “plain indifference” to worker safety.
4. Muhammad -- Death
   When Muhammad was 25, while working for a wealthy widow merchant of Mecca, he accompanied her trading caravan to Syria. The widow, Khadija, was impressed with him and on their return trip offered to marry him. Although she was nearly twice his age, he agreed to the marriage. She bore him 4 daughters and 2 sons, the sons dieing in infancy, before her death.
5. Pericles -- Death
   From about 454 BC until his death, namely for more than 20 years, Pericles led numerous expeditions, mainly naval ones. Being always cautious, he never undertook of his own accord a battle involving much uncertainty and peril and he did not accede to the "vain impulses of the citizens".[62] He based his military policy on Themistocles' principle that Athens' predominance depends on its superior naval firepower. That is why the strengthening of the navy was one of his main preoccupations. Nonetheless, his strategic genius remains questioned and a common criticism against him is that he always was a better politician and orator than strategist.
6. Pilate -- Death
   Pilate is on much weaker ground. He condemns to death a man he believes to be innocent — and he does so... in a shifty manner that seeks to fix all guilt for the murder on Caiaphas and the mob and to exculpate himself.
7. Antigone -- Death
   Antigone is a timeless story of a heroic, tragic figure who defends her integrity and ideals to the death. It is a great classic drama dealing with family loyalties and gender conflict, with civil unrest and the right of government over the individual, with the thirst for personal power and divine law. The selection of Antigone brings together literature, theater, and history, and offers opportunities for discussion of current events as well as a distant past which still has relevance today.
8. Charlemagne -- Death
   Charlemagne's attitude toward his daughters has been the subject of much discussion. He kept them at home with him, and refused to allow them to contract sacramental marriages – possibly to prevent the creation of cadet branches of the family to challenge the main line, as had been the case with Tassilo of Bavaria – yet he tolerated their extramarital relationships, even rewarding their common-law husbands, and treasured the bastard grandchildren they produced for him. He ... apparently, refused to believe stories of their wild behaviour. After his death the surviving daughters were banished from the court by their brother, the pious Louis, to take up residence in the convents they had been bequeathed by their father. At least one of them, Bertha, had a recognised relationship, if not a marriage, with Angilbert, a member of Charlemagne's court circle.
9. Demosthenes -- Death
   [A]fter the disastrous battle in which he ran away like a coward, Demosthenes was chosen to give the funeral oration and dared to praise the courage of the dead. Aeschines asked why should Athens crown a man for virtue and bravery who is a coward and a deserter. How could they present him to the people he made orphans? The theatre of Dionysus should not be used to present a trophy of Athenian defeat, not to mention the miseries of the Thebans, who were driven from their homes because of the bribery of Demosthenes and Persian gold. Aeschines referred to the old Solonian law that cowardice and desertion deserve penalties, and ... he argued it certainly forbids a crown and public ceremonies. Receiving early intelligence from Charidemus of Philip's death, Demosthenes pretended to have a divine dream, and he put on a white robe and crown to celebrate illegally even though his only daughter had died seven days before.
10. Electric Chair -- Death
    Fifth, Provenzano claims that death by electrocution in Florida's electric chair is not instantaneous or painless, and that he will suffer conscious pain because his brain will not immediately cease functioning once the electrical current is applied to him. Additionally, he claims he will suffer disfigurement and mutilation.

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