Read a March 1, 2012, article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about a study that suggested changes to Missouri’s system of capital punishment.

Paul J. Litton is associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law. His specialties include capital punishment, criminal law and morality, and bioethics.  

Read remarks made Feb. 24, 2006, (scroll halfway down the page) by Mark Everson, who was IRS commissioner at the time, about his agency’s role in monitoring charitable groups’ election activities. The IRS stepped up its education and oversight efforts “to address what we saw as increasing political intervention” by tax-exempt groups in 2004, he said. […]

Read IRS rules for charities on political and lobbying activity.

Read a background page about churches, charities and politics on the Internal Revenue Service website.

In November 2007, the IRS issued a reminder to tax-exempt organizations to avoid campaign activities.

The American Center for Law & Justice offers a resource page on churches’ tax-exempt status. ACLJ has frequently argued in court for the right of churches to engage in politics.

See a resource from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life on political endorsements by religious groups.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State has this FAQ on electioneering by houses of worship.