Capital Punishment: A Brief History To read further about the ethical issue of capital punishment, St James EthicsCentre sought the views of its members and the public on this important http://www.abc.net.au/religion/stories/s980872.htm
Extractions: ABC Home Radio Television News ... Library Tue 20, Sep 2005 About Us Contact Us Events Diary Have Your Say ... Site Map While Australian society has conclusively rejected the practice of capital punishment, events such as the Bali bombing have created some public discussion of the issue within our own society. We trace thoughts on this issue from Jewish, Islamic, Graeco-Roman, Buddhist, Christian and humanist perspectives. Ethos is a series exploring the field of ethics. It asks how we should live, how we should adapt our society and ourselves to change, and what sort of illumination religious traditions can bring to these venerable puzzles. War, business, biology, human rights, consumerism, relationships: Ethos presents the issues and the people at the centre of increasingly urgent debates.
Capital Punishment Easier capital punishment is the penalty or sentence of death for Make aposter that expresses your views regarding the issue of capital punishment. http://annettelamb.com/42explore/capunish.htm
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Extractions: The paper begins by presenting some background and statistics about capital punishment in the USA. The viewpoints of both the proponents and the opponents of capital punishment are listed and problems with the use of capital punishment (such as pardoning leading to further crime, and innocent people being executed) are discussed. The paper explores public support of the death penalty and then turns to discuss the recent Washington DC sniper case and the possibility of capital punishment for the offenders. The controversiality of choice of location for the trial is looked at and the new anti-terrorism law is brought up. The paper concludes with some summation comments on capital punishment. "Between 1977 and 2000, 683 inmates have been put to death under the death penalty laws of their state. 519 were by lethal injection, 149 were by electrocution, 11 were by lethal gas, 2 were by firing squad, and 3 were by hanging (Editors 347). Capital punishment has always been a controversial and emotional issue. In the United States, controversy over capital punishment began as early as Colonial times after American gained her independence from Great Britain. Some people began to wonder if anyone really had the right to take a human life, even the government (Vila and Morris xxv), and the debate has raged on ever since."
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Capital Punishment - Review - Crime And Punishment capital punishment Review - Crime and punishment. And then they?re arereligious views. So personally I think than every form of punishment obviously http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/discussion/capital-punishment/438591/
Extractions: Born-again president: What Bush's re-election means for religion and politics While many factors figured into President Bush's re-election on Tuesday, it will be hailed as a victory for religious conservatives, especially the president's fellow evangelicals. Bush is the most ardently evangelical president in modern times, and Christian conservatives effectively bet the ranch on his presidency. He spoke their language on the stump and in policy debates, and they backed him strongly at the ballot box. That mix of faith and politics carries risks as well as rewards. Experts say this campaign - where religion was used as a political tool by both sides - will leave a lasting mark on American faith. This edition of ReligionLink looks at how religion-related issues may play out in Bush's second term and the fallout the divisive race may have for the rest of the country. Why it matters The 2004 presidential election could be seen as the Religious Right versus the Religious - and secular - Left. Experts and religion historians say that never before has faith played such a central role in a presidential campaign. Bush was seen as the Preacher-in-Chief, employing religious language to support his policies, while Kerry was seen as the new champion of the old Social Gospel, using parables to talk about government's responsibility to take care of the poor. The candidates' different views of the role of religion reflect divisions among American believers, so Bush's political performance during the next four years will likely affect the way Americans view the role of faith in the public square. Add in the importance of expected Supreme Court nominations, and experts say Bush's win could profoundly impact the role of religion in public policy for decades, as well as the image and influence of religion in American society.
Capital Punishment - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, Christian criticsto show inconsistency in the views of pro capital punishment Christians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment
Extractions: 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 offence or a capital crime . Some jurisdictions that practice capital punishment restrict its use to a small number of criminal offences, principally treason and murder . 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 Historicallyâand still today under certain systems of lawâthe death penalty was applied to a wider range of offences, including robbery or theft . It has also been frequently used by the military for crimes including looting insubordination , and mutiny The term "capital" derives from the Latin caput , meaning "head". Thus, capital punishment is the penalty for a crime so severe that it deserves
Mormon Philosophy & Theology Therefore it is more cost effective to reject capital punishment. Much ofthis research has focused on religious values, but justice might also http://www.libertypages.com/clark/10560.html
Extractions: July 21, 2005 Bill Vallicella over at Maverick Philosopher has been responding to what were very persuasive arguments against capital punishment. They weren't arguments on the morality or immorality of capital punishment per se. Rather they instead dealt with what one might call the more practical aspects of capital punishment. The cost. The first argument is the following: (Somewhat modified from what I put over at Bill's site) 1. For some crime X justice would be death. 5. Therefore the cost to justice of imposing only life sentence is less than the cost of having death sentences. Now this argument has a few flaws. The first is that "cost" is rather vague and subjective. While that's an obvious flaw, I think for most of us as we think through the argument making abductive guesses about costs will come to think that the conclusions are correct. If there is a strong counter-argument to this argument I've yet to see it. This argument, more so than any other, made me move from being fairly pro-death sentence to being at best luke warm. The second argument is weaker, but in connection to the other, made me rethink my views a fair bit. Once again somewhat modified from how I presented it over at Bill's.
Catholics Against Capital Punishment Catholics Against capital punishment was formed in 1992 to promote greater The Catechism language (click here for text) reflects the views of Pope John http://www.cacp.org/pages/585204/
Extractions: What the Vatican has said The definitive Latin edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, issued in September 1997, states that although the death penalty would be theoretically permissible in instances when it is "the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor," such instances are "practically non-existent" in today's world, given the resources available to governments for restraining criminals. The Catechism language (click here for text) reflects the views of Pope John Paul II, expressed in his 1995 encyclical "The Gospel of Life." More recently, at his Sept. 13, 2000 general audience in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father expressed his hope "that there no longer be recourse to capital punishment, given that states today have the means to efficaciously control crime, without definitively taking away an offender's possibility to redeem himself." "The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life: who will acclaim, celebrate and serve the Gospel of life in every situation. A sign of hope is the increasing recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. Modern society has the means of protecting itself, without definitively denying criminals the chance to reform."
THE JEWISH VIEW OF ABORTION The Jewish view is also important to discuss to show that one religious beliefdoes not have ie killed, does the law of capital punishment take effect. http://www.libchrist.com/other/abortion/jewish.html
Extractions: The Jewish view is also important to discuss to show that one religious belief does not have the right to take away the rights of another religious belief. To many Christians and most Jews, there is no soul till birth, and the only scripture dealing with the issue, clearly shows taking the life of a fetus is not murder. I respect the Catholic declaration that abortion is wrong and Catholics can be ex- communicating for it. However, the point is not to impose Catholic doctrine on other Christians and Jews whose religious beliefs follow more closely scripture rather than Catholic tradition. This is not a Catholic attack but a discussion on why they or any religious group should have no say in controlling the reproductive rights of non-Catholics, especially Jews. I've reviewed many Jewish texts and they are surprisingly in agreement on the basic issue. One is Judaism Confronts Contemporary Issues by Alex J. Goldman. Mr Goldman, rabbi of Temple Beth El, Stanford Connecticut was ordained at the Hebrew Theological College, attended Dropsie College for Hebrew and received his J.D. from De Paul University College of Law. He served two terms as Editor of the Rabbinical Assembly Proceedings and has written extensively in Jewish history and created many liturgical aids.
Extractions: What does the Bible say about capital punishment and the death penalty? The Old Testament Life was harsh for the Hebrews in early Old Testament history. They had just been freed from slavery in Egypt, and wandered in the desert for 40 years. When they finally reached the promised land they had to fight almost constantly to take and hold it. There were few options for dealing with offenders in a society that moved frequently and struggled just to survive. The penalty for most crimes was either death, beating or banishment from the tribe. The Old Testament Law prescribed the death penalty for an extensive list of crimes including: The New Testament The New Testament does not have any specific teachings about capital punishment. However, the Old Testament ideas of punishment became secondary to Jesus' message of love and redemption. Both reward and punishment are seen as properly taking place in eternity, rather than in this life.
Humanist Leaders Applaud Court Capital Punishment Decision capital punishment Decision As Humanists, we don t want to deny anyonetheir religious liberty. But the majority already has abundant opportunity to http://www.americanhumanist.org/press/UpholdChurchState.html
Extractions: rspeckhardt@americanhumanist.org www.americanhumanist.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Washington, DC) As oral arguments were heard in the Supreme Court Ten Commandments cases, Humanists called upon the Court to affirm church-state separation. "Displays of the Ten Commandments on public property blatantly violate the First Amendment ban on government promotion of religion. It's not the duty of government to endorse a sectarian point of view," stated Tony Hileman, executive director of the American Humanist Association, in a speech this morning on the front steps of the Supreme Court. David Friedman, general counsel for the ACLU of Kentucky argued, "The Court cannot turn a blind eye to a sham secular purpose," affirming the position espoused by the AHA's friend-of-the-court brief. This is not a passive display of historic significance but an active mingling of religion and government. "As Humanists, we don't want to deny anyone their religious liberty. But the majority already has abundant opportunity to express their religious faith without denying us our right not to," stated Hileman. "Americans have the privacy of their homes and the sanctity of their families in which to gather and pray. The First Amendment does not require hostility toward religion, but mandates government neutrality toward religion. By imposing a religious belief on those without such beliefs, the Ten Commandment displays violate the Constitution."
Stand To Reason Commentary - The Right-Side-Up File It doesn t even have to be a religious point as long as he s making a point that appropriate for Mother Theresa to argue against capital punishment, http://www.str.org/free/commentaries/apologetics/other/theright.htm
Extractions: Email to a Friend Gregory Koukl Are you saying because I'm a Christian that I should have no vote or are you merely saying that I should have no voice? I mentioned yesterday that one of the serious flaws with what happened in the last six months in the campaign, and especially what happened with the so-called "religious right," is that we failed drastically to frame questions in the proper way and respond to some of the rhetoric that was tossed our way. I also made a comment to you that part of my commitment to you over the next few years is specifically to seek to equip you to respond to those issues. In other words, I want to give you ways to frame the questions. I'm starting a new project with you, even though I've done this unofficially with you the last few years that I've been on the air with you. I want to make this more of an official enterprise, taking issues that have been twisted and turn them right-side-up. I'm calling this "The Right-Side-Up File." These are short zingers or one- or two- or three-liners, things that you can file away and later reflect on and hopefully commit to memory so that when you get into conversations with people about moral and ethical issues that relate to the Christian point of view and the common good. You will have some ways to respond to the comments that people fire at you to marginalize or disqualify your comments.
Capital Punishment capital punishment has been an issue of arguments for centuries. Religiousbeliefs also lead to other point of views by Rush. Rush gives his reader some http://www.freeessays.cc/db/26/hsz283.shtml
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EZF - Buddhism & Capital Punishment In any event, as is the case with capital punishment in the United States religious bodies have not spoken with one voice on capital punishment. http://www.engaged-zen.org/articles/Damien_P_Horigan-Buddhism_Capital_Punishment
Extractions: by Damien P. Horigan, Esq. There is a global trend against capital punishment. Most nations in the developed world and an increasing number of nations in the developing world have officially abolished the death penalty. Similarly, there is an abolitionist movement in the realm of international law. However, matters are quite different in the United States where the United States Supreme Court in Gregg v. Georgia permitted the resumption of executions by the states after the hiatus brought about by Furman v. Georgia. If public opinion polls are to be believed, the general concept of capital punishment remains popular in the United States today. Politicians are well aware of this. In the spring of 1995 New York rejoined the ranks of states with the death penalty. A majority of states have laws providing for the death penalty even though the number of actual executions remains relatively low when compared to the population of inmates on death rows across the nation. In recent years the Supreme Court has repeatedly come out in favor of the death penalty. For instance, the mentally retarded may be executed. Likewise, minors may be executed. Such decisions go against what appears to be the general evolution of international law.
Extractions: Postgraduate Studies Moral Theory and Capital Punishment Research Degrees Taught Degrees Modules Understanding Modules ... Postgraduate Studies Main Page Module Code Lecturer/Coordinator Dr Bryne Browne Method of Delivery Distance No of credits Method of assessment 5,000 word essay Year(s) running Every What is the difference between moral rhetoric and moral argument? Can the death penalty be defended on the basis of the claim that it is an effective deterrent? Is it a decisive objection to capital punishment to say that it does not respect the sanctity of life, or to note that it will sometimes lead to the execution of innocent people? Are there any crimes that can only justly be punished by death? Can the death penalty be decisively rejected on the grounds that it is a 'cruel and unusual punishment'? Does Christianity provide support for one or another view of the death penalty? Should we accept Kant's judgement that: 'A penalty is imposed justly only if the reason for it is the crime alone'? For further information on postgraduate enrolment and registration, contact:
It Is About Religious Belief The National Organization for Women also attacked Pickering on religious only to personal beliefs about such matters as poverty and capital punishment. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/13/AR2005051301389.
Extractions: var SA_Message="SACategory=" + 'opinion/columns'; Hello Edit Profile Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Subscribe to SEARCH: News Web var ie = document.getElementById?true:false; ie ? formSize=27 : formSize=24 ; document.write(''); Top 20 E-mailed Articles washingtonpost.com Columns Print This Article ... E-Mail This Article Top News What is RSS? All RSS Feeds By Tony Perkins Saturday, May 14, 2005; Page A21 During his nationally televised press conference April 28, President Bush was asked about the Family Research Council's allegation that some of his judicial nominees have been filibustered because of their faith. After considerable probing by MSNBC's David Gregory, the president said he believed that in fact his nominees were being subjected to these stalling tactics not because of their religious beliefs but because of their "judicial philosophy." Well, I agree with the president that some Democratic senators have targeted the judicial philosophy of the nominees. But that judicial philosophy has been scrutinized and scorned in several cases precisely because of the nominee's belief system or faith not because of his or her record. After all, it was Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) not the Family Research Council who launched an inquiry into one key nominee's "deeply held personal beliefs." Schumer didn't challenge the nominee's "deeply held judicial philosophy," but rather his beliefs. And what were those personal beliefs? In the case of former Alabama attorney general William Pryor, as with other filibustered nominees, it appears that it was the nominee's personal views on abortion, homosexuality and other matters on which Catholic and evangelical churches have clear positions that are contrary to those of liberal Democrats and their allies. Pryor failed the Democrats' test because he had spoken out, as a Catholic, saying that abortion is an abomination. He was also questioned about postponing a family vacation with his young children to Disney World because he found out it coincided with "Gay Days" at the park.
FT May 2002: Gods Justice And Ours Before proceeding to discuss the morality of capital punishment, I want to makeclear that my views on the subject have nothing to do with how I vote in http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0205/articles/scalia.html
Extractions: Gods Justice and Ours Antonin Scalia Before proceeding to discuss the morality of capital punishment, I want to make clear that my views on the subject have nothing to do with how I vote in capital cases that come before the Supreme Court. That statement would not be true if I subscribed to the conventional fallacy that the Constitution is a living documentthat is, a text that means from age to age whatever the society (or perhaps the Court) thinks it ought to mean. But while my views on the morality of the death penalty have nothing to do with how I vote as a judge, they have a lot to do with whether I can or should be a judge at all. To put the point in the blunt terms employed by Justice Harold Blackmun towards the end of his career on the bench, when he announced that he would henceforth vote (as Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall had previously done) to overturn all death sentences, when I sit on a Court that reviews and affirms capital convictions, I am part of the machinery of death. My vote, when joined with at least four others, is, in most cases, the last step that permits an execution to proceed. I could not take part in that process if I believed what was being done to be immoral. Capital cases are much different from the other lifeanddeath issues that my Court sometimes faces: abortion, for example, or legalized suicide. There it is not the state (of which I am in a sense the last instrument) that is decreeing death, but rather private individuals whom the state has decided not to restrain. One may argue (as many do) that the society has a moral obligation to restrain. That moral obligation may weigh heavily upon the voter, and upon the legislator who enacts the laws; but a judge, I think, bears no moral guilt for the laws society has failed to enact. Thus, my difficulty with
FT April 2001: Catholicism & Capital Punishment After a fiveyear moratorium, from 1972 to 1977, capital punishment was reinstated in such as clergy and religious, in view of their specific vocation, http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0104/articles/dulles.html
Extractions: Avery Cardinal Dulles Among the major nations of the Western world, the United States is singular in still having the death penalty. After a fiveyear moratorium, from 1972 to 1977, capital punishment was reinstated in the United States courts. Objections to the practice have come from many quarters, including the American Catholic bishops, who have rather consistently opposed the death penalty. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1980 published a predominantly negative statement on capital punishment, approved by a majority vote of those present though not by the required twothirds majority of the entire conference. Pope John Paul II has at various times expressed his opposition to the practice, as have other Catholic leaders in Europe. Some Catholics, going beyond the bishops and the Pope, maintain that the death penalty, like abortion and euthanasia, is a violation of the right to life and an unauthorized usurpation by human beings of Gods sole lordship over life and death. Did not the Declaration of Independence, they ask, describe the right to life as unalienable? While sociological and legal questions inevitably impinge upon any such reflection, I am here addressing the subject as a theologian. At this level the question has to be answered primarily in terms of revelation, as it comes to us through Scripture and tradition, interpreted with the guidance of the ecclesiastical magisterium.
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