**On the roster: Death penalty returns to culture wars - Time Out: When seconds matter - GOP infighting could cost them Price’s Atlanta seat - Trump’s taxes, your taxes and a pair of deadlines - That’s ‘Professor Toilet Cleaner’ to you, sirDEATH PENALTY RETURNS TO CULTURE WARSOne of the most remarkable things about the current uproar over an unprecedented series of seven executions set to take place in Arkansas over the next ten days is how unusual the discussion of the death penalty is itself. And, in the past five years, 26 states that still have the death penalty on the books have killed no one. You may or may not remember how different this issue looked 20 years ago when approval for the death penalty was at an all-time high. According to Gallup, support for the death penalty reached its high-water mark at 80 percent in 1996. After a huge battle 44 years ago and the broad reimplementation of the practice in the 1980s and 1990s, the death penalty is sharply waning in practice.

Source: Fox News April 17, 2017 19:17 UTC