CJBS: Capital Punishment Public opinion and capital punishment A close examination of the views ofabolitionists religious orientation, race and support for the death penalty. http://www.cpa.ca/ogloff.htm
Extractions: Abstract A lthough the Parliament of Canada abolished the death penalty as a sentencing option in 1976 (Amnesty International, 1987), a majority of Canadians (approximately 65-75%) have indicated that they would support a return of the death penalty (Reid, 1987). Furthermore, calls for the reintroduction of the death penalty by politicians and others occur frequently. As a result of the public's apparent support for capital punishment, and the possibility of its return, it is important to continue studying factors that influence people's attitudes regarding the death penalty.
Law: Capital Punishment Term Paper Help Ethical, religious and philosophical thought regarding capital punishment.views for and Whether capital punishment acts as a deterrent against crime. http://www.research-assistance.com/hazel-doc/ra-topics/law_capital_punishment.ht
Extractions: Philosophical discussion of the death-penalty. History of state-sanctioned death penalty for certain crimes. Ethical, religious and philosophical thought regarding capital punishment. Views for and against. Civil and moral legislation. State theory of various Western philosophers. Controversy surrounding the death penalty in the U.S. Racism. Whether capital punishment acts as a deterrent against crime. Contends that juveniles should not be put to death. Cites the U.S. as the only industrialized country in the world that continues to execute juvenile offenders. Cites failure of capital punishment as a deterrent. Discusses alternative punishments and the Constitutionality of the issue. Need for preventive measures.
PublicEye.org - Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence - Part 1 So severe is this theocracy that it would extend capital punishment beyond suchcrimes as This dual justification for their views, one religious, http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v08n1/chrisre1.html
Extractions: Christian Reconstructionism The Public Eye Magazine by Frederick Clarkson The Christian Right has shown impressive resilience and has rebounded dramatically after a series of embarrassing televangelist scandals of the late 1980s, the collapse of Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, and the failed presidential bid of Pat Robertson. In the 1990s, Christian Right organizing went to the grassroots and exerted wide influence in American politics across the country. There is no doubt that Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition gets much of the credit for this successful strategic shift to the local level. But another largely overlooked reason for the persistent success of the Christian Right is a theological shift since the 1960s. The catalyst for the shift is Christian Reconstructionismarguably the driving ideology of the Christian Right in the 1990s. Reconstructionism has expanded from the works of a small group of scholars to inform a wide swath of conservative Christian thought and action. While many Reconstructionist political positions are commonly held conservative views, what is significant is that Reconstructionists have created a comprehensive program, with Biblical justifications for far right political policies. Many post-World War II conservative, anticommunist activists were also, if secondarily, conservative Christians. However, the Reconstructionist movement calls on conservatives to be Christians first, and to build a church-based political movement from there.
Paper Sample Number 2 However, the topic of religious preference and views on capital punishment bore a Bivariate Analysis of capital punishment Attitude (CAPPUN) by Religion http://www.wku.edu/~Douglas.Smith/Sample2.htm
Extractions: INTRODUCTION The death penalty continues to be a major social debate in the United States. The issue was recently brought to light again in a rather peculiar way just a few weeks ago with the daring escape of death row inmate, Martin Gurule, from the Huntsville prison in Texas. The nation waited for days as the authorities searched for Gurule, who eventually turned up dead in a near by pond. The tactics of allowing death row inmates to engage in prison work programs was called into question. This very incident also raised from the depths the over all issue of the death penalty. The United States has, by and large, always been a pro-death penalty country. U.S. citizens have usually wanted justice, at least in regards to murder, to be swift and stiff. The question then arises; Who supports the death penalty? What is the key ingredient to the kind of people who support the death penalty compared to those who do not? The debate over the morality of the death penalty is most visibly seen in two arenas. The first is the political arena and the second is the religious arena. Political affiliation seems to have a lot to do with whether one supports the death penalty or not. Logically speaking from a general, socially observable point of view those who are more conservative seem to support the death penalty more than those who are more liberal. The terms liberal and conservative, at least in the last half of the twentieth century in U.S. politics, have been applied to the Democrats and Republicans in that order. Meaning that Democrats are viewed as a more liberal, thus by conventional logic would be less likely to support the death penalty in regards to murder. The Republicans are viewed as being more conservative, thus by conventional logic would be more likely to support the death penalty in regards to murder. This general political party view of the death penalty has generally held up in the past
Archives - Kilgore Aggressive At Debate Kaines repeated vows to enforce Virginias capital punishment and abortion laws.Kaine shot back that Kilgore is questioning his religious views and is http://loper.org/~george/archives/2005/Jul/959.html
Extractions: Home "WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va.Virginia’s two major-party candidates for governor agreed Saturday that they offer vastly different visions for the state’s next chief executive, but found little other common ground in a feisty 90-minute debate in which Republican Jerry W. Kilgore proved more aggressive. Kilgore asserted several times during the Virginia Bar Association-sponsored event that Democrat Timothy M. Kaine would issue blanket clemency to death row inmates because he is opposed to capital punishment for philosophical and religious reasons. Debate moderator Robert D. Holsworth, director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Center for Public Policy, elicited quite different views when he asked both candidates if they would veto further restrictions on abortion that could result from upcoming changes in the Supreme Court. Kaine and Kilgore clashed over affirmative action in higher education and whether race should be considered, as it is now, as a factor in bolstering black enrollments. Kilgore said he had worked with Warner for higher education bonds and to combat gangs. The Republican said he is the only candidate to oppose tax increases and to trust Virginians by insisting that tax increases, especially any increase for transportation, first go to voters in regional referendums.
ProfessorBainbridge.com: A Religious Test? If capital punishment is sought in a case where the Church would regard it as the potential that their religious views would impact their decisions. http://www.professorbainbridge.com/2005/07/a_religious_tes_1.html
February 1996 What the Bible tells ustwo religious views. I wholeheartedly sympathize withyour view of capital punishment ( Parlor Talk, November 1995) as organized, http://www.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/archive/96/feb96/letters.html
Extractions: I enjoyed reading "A Near Miss," the story of Maurice Foley '82 in the November Bulletin. His statement, "... I was not prepared for college-academically, socially, mentally, nor spiritually. I was not disciplined enough to deal with the rigorous academic environment," describes many of the students I am working with today at the Foundation for a College Education (FACE), a new organization that supports qualified minority young people as they prepare for and succeed in college. In the ghetto where I went to school before attending Swarthmore, I always hid my report card, refusing to show it to other students because I made good grades. Many of my friends, even those who excelled academically, did not go on to college. Some had no idea that they could apply; others were afraid that they could not meet the challenges that would await them. It wasn't the academic challenge that worried my friends. They simply didn't have a clue about how the system of higher education worked and whether they could fit in. Even today when I interview a steady stream of college hopefuls for Swarthmore, I rarely see black or Hispanic youngsters, though I know there are many in the community who are qualified. The vision of FACE is to form a partnership with students and their families, starting as early in high school as possible, and then to follow the student all the way through entrance into college. Students will commit to achieving their highest potential, families will commit to encouraging them, and the foundation will provide support services and opportunities that help young people see the range of possibilities before them.
Information Plus Series On Current Topics toward abortion Some recent religious views on abortion It should be Contents A continuing conflict a history of capital punishment in http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/general/infoplus.htm
Extractions: Information Plus Series on Current Topics The Gale Group has acquired Information Plus from a Dallas-area publisher and will be publishing new editions. According to Gale, the Information Plus Series on Current Topics compiles all the pertinent data, both current and historical, on a wide variety of contemporary social issues. Designed as ready-reference tools providing key data on social concerns, these books save researchers and students from the cumbersome task of locating the various data in pamphlets, legal journals, congressional reports, newspapers, and other sources. The series now covers 33 vital current issues, from abortion to national security. Each book in the series provides current and past statistics, court decisions, state and federal laws, tables and charts, results of public opinion polls, and more. Each volume averages from 112 to 200 pages, and includes indexing, complete source citations, as well as listings of names, addresses, telephone, and fax numbers for relevant organizations. Each volume will be completely revised and updated every two years. Many of the articles appearing in this series are also available electronically via the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center . Access to the electronic articles is limited to MSU faculty and students. Abortion: an Eternal Social and Moral Issue
Death Penalty Religious: General Conference Mennonite Church We work with official religious bodies to aid antideath penalty activism The position on capital punishment of the General Conference Mennonite Church http://www.deathpenaltyreligious.org/education/statements/mennonite.html
Extractions: General Conference Mennonite Church CAPITAL PUNISHMENT The position on capital punishment of the General Conference Mennonite Church as adopted at Estes Park, Colorado, July 16, 1965. In View Of our Christian responsibility to give witness to the righteousness which God requires of all men, we are constrained to set forth our convictions concerning capital punishment. Our Belief Since Christ through His redemptive work has fulfilled the requirement of the death penalty, and has given the church a ministry of reconciliation, and in view of the injustice and ineffectiveness of capital punishment as a means for the achievement of the purpose of government, we express our conviction that its use should be discontinued. In view of the prophetic commission given to the church, therefore, we appeal to the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada and to the federal and state governments of the United States, to discontinue the use of the death penalty and to set rehabilitation as the ultimate goal in the treatment of the criminal, expressing a positive attitude to the offender, thus further encouraging the peace and order which under the lordship of Christ the state is commissioned to provide. Our Confession and Our Prayer In view of our responsibility as ministers of reconciliation we confess that we have not adequately fulfilled our obligation to work for the abolition of capital punishment or for the reduction of crime in our society. We need to be more faithful in serving persons in prison and in laboring for the reform of prison procedures; for the rehabilitation of released prisoners; and for the improvement of the economic, social, and religious conditions which contribute to the making of juvenile offenders and to the spread ofcrime.
Extractions: Home CJ Ethics Penology Buy ... CJ Ethics The Capital Punishment section of Criminal Justice Ethics contains a series of article that sketch out some of the themes in the debate. For more information, read Paul's columns about Mumia Abu-Jamal and televising McVeigh's exection Nathanson argues against the proposition that just deserts leads to executions. He believes it is difficult to be able to know what people deserve, and setting up an institution to consistently deliver just deserts is different from the outcome in an individual case. The analogy he uses is putting a grade on essay exams and trying to decide between an A- and a B+. Randomness in some judging is acceptable, but discrepancies in the death penalty are not. People should be held responsible and punished, but "we ought not feel confident that we can judge the precise degree of punishment that people morally deserve, and even if we could do this, we ought not feel confident that our criminal justice system actually does so" (p 422) Death Penalty Information Center Ethics Updates Death Penalty resources Cost, Deterrence, Incapacitation, Brutalization and the Death Penalty
Capital Punishment Death Penalty - News Updates And Research Though I am not a Mennonite, my views regarding capital punishment are pretty much Religion Journal Standing Against Death Penalty, The New York Times, http://www.apologeticsindex.org/d07.html
Extractions: Articles Books ... About This Page Among Christians there is a range of opinions regarding the death penalty. Some Christians support the death penalty because it was instituted in the Old Testament. They claim that Romans 13:1-5 demonstrates modern governments can still apply the death penalty. However, most concede it is not now used for all situations in which the Old Testament prescribes it (including, for example, adultery, and consistenly disobedient children ) Remember, the New Testament says that whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. Thus those who wish to hold on to Old Testament laws should be consistent and keep the entire law (a mistake addressed by Paul in his letter to the Galatians
Capital Punishment: Guide To Library Resources the death penalty for homicide, the Jewish view of capital punishment, capital punishmentPolitical aspects capital punishment-religious aspects http://www.msjc.edu/sjclibrary/research/capitalpun.htm
Extractions: MT. SAN JACINTO COLLEGE LIBRARY - SAN JACINTO CAMPUS - LIBRARY PATHFINDERS; 1 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: GUIDE TO LIBRARY RESOURCES "Death for whatever crime and all circumstances is truly an awesome punishment. The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, a denial of the executed person's humanity… an executed person has indeed 'lost' the right to have rights." William Brennan Gregg v. Georgia SOCIAL PATHOLOGY. WELFARE. CRIMINOLOGY Criminal justice administration Capital punishment Arguments in favor of capital punishment Arguments against capital punishment Imprisonment LAW OF THE UNITED STATES (FEDERAL) Criminal law Capital punishment Day, Nancy. The Death Penalty for Teens: a Pro/Con Issue . Berkeley Heights, CA: Enslow Publishers, 2000. (Hot Pro/Con Issues) REF HV8699.U5.D3 2000 Examines the death penalty for juveniles from all points of view, including a history of the topic and how societies all over deal with the issue. Includes a bibliography and index. Death Penalty: Opposing Viewpoints / Paul A. Winters, ed. 3rd ed. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1997. (Opposing Viewpoints) REF HV8694.D385 1997
All About Capital Punishment - RecipeLand.com Reference Library capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, 4 religious viewsof the death penalty. 4.1 Death penalty in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible, http://www.recipeland.com/encyclopaedia/index.php/Capital_punishment
Extractions: Home Browse Recipes Recipes By Title Recipes By Ingredient ... Community Find Recipes By Category Latest Reviews Latest Ratings Top 10 Recipes ... Top 10 Searches By Letter: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Search Encylopedia Browse Culture Geography History Life ... Technology Categories Death penalty Capital punishment , also referred to as the death penalty , is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime , often called a capital offense or a capital crime . Some jurisdictions that practice capital punishment restrict its use to a small number of criminal offences, principally treason and murder . In recent years in the United States, these have also included killings that occur during the course of some other violent felony, such as robbery or rape . Prisoners who have been sentenced to death are usually kept segregated from other prisoners in a special part of the prison pending their execution. In some places this segregated area is known as " Death Row Historicallyand still today under certain systems of lawthe death penalty was applied to a wider range of offenses, including robbery or theft . It has also been frequently used by the military for looting insubordination mutiny , etc.
Extractions: By H.G. Dr. Geevarghese Mar Osthathios, Indian Orthodox Church [Editor's Note: Once in a while the question of appropriateness of capital punishment comes up when one faces a heinous crime. Such was the case in India recently when a ruthless criminal Dara Singh was convicted and sentenced to die for killing an Australian missionary and his two sons in North India. The author, a well known bishop of Indian Orthodox Church, who many believe to be a modern day living saint, offers his viewpoint on this topic drawing up on his vast knowledge of all religions in India.] Almost all the readers of newspapers (23rd Sept. 2003) are unanimous in saying that the judgment of judge Mahendranath Patnaik was very apt. If any body is worthy to receive a capital punishment in India, it is Dara Singh. The execution of Australian Missionary Graham Stanes and his two sons (Timothy and Philip), while they were sleeping in a van on September 22nd, 1999 was most cruel. "Mangalam" (a newspaper in Kerala, India) reported that he was "an embodiment of devil" 'Deshabhimani' (another newspaper in India) reported that the judgement was a "Worthy retort to Sangh Parivar", Possibly Sangh Parivar made Dara singh, a real fanatic, who wanted to save Hinduism by killing Muslim and Christians, belonging to minority community. Those who studies Hinduism in depth will agree that Hinduism believes in 'Advaita'. It does not teach to kill anyone to save sanatana Hinduism.
Israelinsider: Views: Capital Punishment: America Vs. Israel Two Western moral democracies have polar opposite views on a very The fourmain arguments against capital punishment can easily be refuted by any http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/3069.htm
Extractions: Irwin N. Graulich is a well known motivational speaker on ethics, religion and Judaism. A child of Holocaust survivors, he has been successful in showing religious and secular people the need for God-based ethics. Irwin considers himself a multi-denominational, serious Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jew.
20th WCP: A Non-Pacifist Argument Against Capital Punishment JudeoChristian religious community has been that capital punishment is notmurder. The obvious exception is Kants view that capital punishment is http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/OApp/OAppWeat.htm
Extractions: (other than Bioethics) A Non-Pacifist Argument Against Capital Punishment Roy Weatherford ABSTRACT: Traditional opposition to capital punishment has generally been based on one or more of the following claims: (1) Capital punishment is immoral because all killing is immoral, (2) Capital punishment is unjust because killing is irreversible, or (3) Capital punishment is ineffective because killing is not a deterrent to killing. I propose to argue instead that capital punishment is immoral because of the kind of killing it is, rather than because it is a kind of killing simpliciter . This is a specifically moral argument, but it differs from the usual pacifist argument in that it does not assert or depend upon the claim that all killing is immoral. Herbert H. Haines has written that "The...predominantly moralistic critique [of capital punishment] has never met with much success in the United States..." I believe that there are two principal reasons for this lack of response to the usual moralistic argument. One is that Hume was right in his suggestion that one of the chief roots of morality is our sympathy for our fellows, and the murderer is about as unsympathetic a character as anyone in society. By his awful act he (and most murderers are Those of us who were raised in the Judeo-Christian morally tradition that is significantly based on the Ten Commandments often were initially perplexed to see that our respected elders permitted or even engaged in various kinds of killing despite the clear Biblical injunction "Thou shalt not kill." If we ventured to ask about this, we generally were told something like "The Hebrew word translated as ‘kill’ in the King James Version of the Bible really meant something more like ‘murder’; hence God did not forbid all kinds of killing, only murderous killing. It is alright to kill in self-defense or in a just war, for example."
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Extractions: Genesis 9:6 And Capital Punishment From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Genesis 9:6 and Capital Punishment Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 09:19:47 GMT (Genesis 9:6 NRSV) Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person's blood be shed; for in his own image God made humankind. Those who construct their theology solely by finding a verse from scripture that answers a particular question need read no further in this post. From the above, there is no question that the death penalty is mandated to Christians and Jews for the sin of murder. Those who are interested in examining the context of the above words, undertaking the complex task of relating them to other teachings in scripture on the same topic, and applying logic and common sense to arrive at a Christian understanding of this issue for the world of today are invited to read on. What follows is based on my understanding of the Pentateuch and the issue of Capital Punishment. 1. Authorship.
Capital Punishment It was God who authorised capital punishment and the bible nowhere withdraws I am trying to find out if your agenda here is political or religious. http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/872.htm
