Trump's decision to back out of his planned public execution of the Fort Hood mass shooter is sad for America. Not because it wouldn't have been a gruesome spectacle that eroded whatever is left of the country's international standing — it would have. Not because Nidal Hasan won't still be killed on Dec. 3 —...

Once again, the debate over capital punishment is raging, driven by the staggering incompetence of Tennessee's would-be prison executioners, who have repeatedly failed to kill Christa Pike for a murder she committed 30 years ago, and by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's shocking announcement that the military plans to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood...