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 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.

The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., trains officers for the Navy.

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., trains officers for the Army.

The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., trains officers for the Air Force. The academy had been involved in controversy over charges of proselytizing by evangelical Christians, prompting an investigation in 2005.