Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

Elijah finally ascends to heaven in a fiery chariot. Quite the melodrama. Mendelssohn had been exploring ideas for a musical biography of a man he described as “energetic and zealous ...

“That just as Elijah was brought up in a fiery chariot, so now the condemned was going to go to God in the fiery chariot of the electric chair.” The Biblical paintings Hoffman will encounter ...