James S. Liebman is Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in New York. He specializes in criminal law, ethics and capital punishment.

Robert Blecker is a professor at New York Law School and an expert on capital punishment.

Carol Steiker is a professor at Harvard Law School and an expert on the death penalty and criminal law.

The Army Chaplain Center and School at Fort Jackson, S.C., trains and supports Army chaplains and chaplain assistants. Training for chaplains in all branches of the armed services are located in this facility.

The Navy Chaplain Corps maintains a list of Navy chaplain offices. Marine Corps chaplains are administered within the Navy chaplaincy.

The Armed Forces Chaplains Board makes recommendations to the secretary of defense and the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness on religious, ethical and moral matters for the military services and on policy matters, including protection of the free exercise of religion.

Read an Oct. 11, 2005, Washington Post article about the Air Force’s decision to distance itself from the ethics code of the National Conference on Ministry to the Armed Forces. The code includes the statement “I will not proselytize from other religious bodies, but I retain the right to evangelize those who are not affiliated.”

Read an April 2006 Christianity Today article about evangelical chaplains’ desire to use the name of Jesus while praying.

Read a Jan. 16, 2007, Baptist Press article about a Marine chaplain who said the Navy retaliated against him after he spoke out about its religious policies.