People of Faith Against the Death Penalty is a nonprofit, interfaith organization based in North Carolina whose mission is to educate and mobilize faith communities, particularly in the South, to act to abolish the death penalty in the United States.

David Masci is a senior researcher at the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project in Washington, D.C. Masci previously worked for 14 years as a journalist for Congressional Quarterly.

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.

Joseph Bottum is an author based in South Dakota and a former editor of the conservative-leaning interfaith journal First Things. Contact through Random House publicist Katie Moore.

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.

Erik C. Owens is an associate professor of the practice in theology at Boston College, where he also directs the international studies program. He is the co-editor of three books, including Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning and Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape.

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.