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Dulles argues that the Church teaches that punishments, including the death penalty, may be levied for four reasons: [22] Rehabilitation – The sentence of death can and sometimes does move the condemned person to repentance and conversion. The death penalty may be a way of achieving the criminal's reconciliation with God.
The International Federation of ACATs, FIACAT, is an international, non-governmental, Christian human rights organisation, created in 1987, which fights for the abolition of torture and the death penalty. The Federation brings together some thirty national associations.
The death penalty, with its irreversible and final nature, stands in stark contrast to the principles of mercy, redemption, and second chances that underpin the pro-life ethos.
Christian protester at the Utah State Capitol, holding a sign citing Matthew 25:40 as evidence against the morality of the death penalty. Christian tradition from the New Testament have come to a range of conclusions about the permissibility and social value of capital punishment. [14]
In this opinion essay, Pastor Kevin Riggs shares how he met death row inmate Kevin Burns and why they wrote a book together about the man's life. Opinion: Kevin Burns should be out of Tennessee ...
In a 2004 poll by the Center for Social Sciences and Public Policy Research at Southwest Missouri State University, only 40% of Missourians surveyed support the death penalty when offered an ...
The Bible states that for the death penalty to be carried out, at least two witnesses were required. [6] (According to Rabbinic tradition, there were numerous other conditions/requirements (such as a warning) that made it difficult to get a conviction.) Sins that were punishable by death in the Torah, included the following: [3] [4]
Last year, four countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes, as Amnesty International noted in a recent report: Kazakhstan, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic.