David Gilmartin is a history professor at North Carolina State University and director of its Center for South Asia Studies. He can discuss the politics in Pakistan. He is in Raleigh, N.C.

Raymond Flynn is chairman of the Catholic Alliance, a former mayor of Boston and former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. His group supported the “Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act of 2005.”

Michaelle L. Browers is an associate professor in the political science department of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. Her expertise is in Arab and Islamic political thought, political ideologies, feminist theory and democratic theory.

Catherine Warrick is an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University in Villanova, Pa. She teaches a course in Middle East politics, and one of her areas of research and expertise is comparative politics in the region.

Read a June 29, 2013, story from The New York Times about Texas’ record of executed inmates’ last words. The state, with the highest number of executions in the U.S., keeps an online database of the executed’s last words.

Kevin Hasson is chairman and president of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Contact through Tom Carter.

Diane Singerman is an associate professor at the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. She is an expert on Islam and politics in Egypt.

The James Madison Center for Free Speech supports litigation and education activities on behalf of free speech. Along with the Alliance Defense Fund, the center has offered to give churches and clergy free advice and legal opinion letters about allowable political activities. James Bopp Jr. is the center’s general counsel.

David Patel is an assistant professor of government at Cornell University. He applies game theory and ethnography to Islamic institutions to study their effect on national politics and once spent eight months living with an Islamic family in Basra, Iraq. He speaks frequently about the political and religious situation in Iraq.