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The 1911 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia suggested that "the infliction of capital punishment is not contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church, and the power of the State to visit upon culprits the penalty of death derives much authority from revelation and from the writings of theologians", but that the matter of "the advisability ...
The moral liceity of the death penalty had support from early Catholic theologians, though some of them such as Saint Ambrose encouraged members of the clergy not to pronounce or carry out capital punishment. Saint Augustine answered objections to capital punishment rooted in the first commandment in The City of God. [2]
Although capital punishment in Vatican City was legal from 1929 to 1969, no executions took place in that time. This list does not include people executed by other authorities of the Roman Catholic Church or those executed by Inquisitions other than the Roman Inquisition , or those killed in wars involving the Papal States , or those killed ...
Jesus didn't say, 'Execute the hell out of the enemy,'" the Catholic nun and anti–death penalty activist tells Reason. Sister Helen Prejean on Capital Punishment, Justice, and Meeting Victims ...
In the thirteenth century, Thomas Aquinas argued that capital punishment was a form of "lawful slaying", which became the standard Catholic teaching on the issue for centuries. During the Protestant Reformation , Martin Luther and John Calvin defended the death penalty, but Quakers , Brethren , and Mennonites have opposed it since their founding.
The Inquisitions provide the most memorable instance of Church support for capital punishment, although some historians considered these more lenient than the secular courts of the period. [90] [91] On August 2, 2018, the church adopted the view that capital punishment is "inadmissible" as it violates the dignity of mankind.
Capital punishment in Vatican City; Crime in Vatican City; Lateran Treaty; Legal status of the Holy See (Alperin v. Vatican Bank) (Doe v. Holy See) Temporal power of the Holy See; Tribunal of Vatican City State; Canon law 1983 Code of Canon Law Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus; LGBTQ rights in Vatican City
Capital punishment in Vatican City; Crime in Vatican City; Lateran Treaty; Legal status of the Holy See (Alperin v. Vatican Bank) (Doe v. Holy See) Temporal power of the Holy See; Tribunal of Vatican City State; Canon law 1983 Code of Canon Law Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus; LGBTQ rights in Vatican City