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Capital Punishment: Dehumanizes or Defends Society?
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2015-11-02 04:00:48
Description:

Why would the Church oppose what appears to be the most effective way of deterring crime, that is, capital punishment? It seems only just to take the life of a killer, “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.”  Learn why the Church believes it dehumanizes society and thus should not be permitted, except when…

Further Resources:

  1. Online: Catechism of the Catholic Church on the Death Penalty
  2. Online: John Paul II’s Encyclical Evangelium Vitae
  3. Online: Fr. Thomas Williams’s Capital Punishment and the Just Society
  4. Online: Colin Donovan’s article Capital Punishment – the Pope’s Position
  5. Online: Catholic Answer’s article Did the Church Change Its Teaching on the Death Penalty?
  6. Online: USCCB’s page on the Death Penalty
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