Beliefnet.com capital punishment Comprehensive site about religious views of death penalty,includes multiple sides of the debate. Do you know of a great website? http://www.beliefnet.com/index/index_20383.html
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Religious Education as the law of their country, unlike Britain where we use a state law and a multireligiouslaw, which capital punishment Project - Year 9. HELEN PREJEAN'S views. http://www.hayesbrook.kent.sch.uk/depart/RE/re_projects.htm
Capital Punishment cases, statistics, the international context, and views from both capital Punishmentthe Death Penalty information from different religious perspectives http://dianedew.com/dthpnlty.htm
Extractions: II. Under the Mosaic Law, the death penalty was not only permissible but required. Genesis 9:5-6 "And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed." Numbers 35:31 "Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. He must surely be put to death."
Execution In Tennessee - Religion - Jacksonsun.com religious groups wrestle with capital punishment. Church leaders around Jacksonhold conflicting views of the death penalty, but both sides use the http://www.jacksonsun.com/fe/exec/religion.shtml
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UNC-CH Philosophy Deptartment--Summer Class Descriptions ethics, sexual ethics, business ethics, racism, sexism, capital punishment, the environment Thiscourse welcomes people of all of religious views and backgrounds http://www.unc.edu/depts/phildept/summerclasses.html
Extractions: Summer Session Course Description First Session PHIL 20 Introduction to Philosophy: Main Problems (3). An introduction to the study of philosophy through the examination of major philosophical problems. Munsat: A survey of metaphysical issues through classic and contemporary writings. Topics include mind/body, the existence and nature of God, free will/determinism. PHIL 21 Introductory Symbolic Logic (3). Introduction to the formal theory of deductive reasoning. PHIL 22 Introduction to Ethics (3). An introduction to the study of moral issues and philosophical questions concerning morality. PHIL 30 Applied Ethics (3). An introduction to applied ethics surveying a variety of moral issues. Topics may include: war, medical ethics, media ethics, sexual ethics, business ethics, racism, sexism, capital punishment, the environment. You or your girlfriend gets pregnant. Should there be an abortion? A porn shop opens next to a grade school. Should it have been allowed to open? A parent contracts cancer and is slowly dying. Should you speed up their death to prevent suffering? Students are being admitted into universities based solely on affirmative action programs. IS this the right way to fight racism and sexism? You are graduating from college and looking for a job. What matters in choosing a career? These questions and many more will be studied in this class. Through short lectures, class discussions, student led debates and student presentations we will explore the ethical territory surrounding many controversial questions. There will be multi-media resources, including web-based resources, films, music samples and literature.
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Extractions: Strengthening the influence of Catholic clergy Clergy and neofascism In the last years after November 1989 one can note a substantial stabilising of material substance belonging to Catholic church, along with its influence on the whole public life of the country. It has been reflected not only in establishing a multitude of monastic orders , in reconstructing and erecting new sacral buildings , grounding of a multitude of civil and professional associations on religious base, but also on a definite influence of church dignitaries in State administrative bodies as concern the working staff , even in some of the ministries. All this is disproportionate to the composition of the population since out of 5,5 million citizens of Slovakia more than 1,5 million do not profess any religion. (101.) Slovakia made a restitution of church properties with such a generosity and such advantages to churches which are not paralleled in any other Central European country. Returned were real estates which never belonged to churches , the church was only permitted to use them. The time limit was shifted back to May 8, 1945, although for other subjects the time limit remained February 25, 1948 . ( 136.) Contrary to capability of cultivating professionally the regained property a vast expanse of fields and forests was returned totalling 55.thousand hectares.( 37.).Bishop D. Hruovský in a radio interview being asked how the church had originally acquired all its real estate , answered : " When the church needed it, she solicited for it." (Which
UChicago Divinity School: The University Of Chicago Divinity School bestconnected of American religious leaders. he would have heard enthusiastic supportfor capital punishment. so, they counteract their own views of conversion http://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2003/0120.html
Extractions: When former Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted the death sentences of 167 inmates on Illinois's Death Row earlier this month, he prompted a new round of intense theological and moral debate. Chicago Sun-Times columnist John O'Sullivan weighed in from the furiously-opposed-to-commutation side (January 14), ignoring religious voices and shooting down the arguments of the "academic, media and political elites." O'Sullivan makes clear that the "elites" have to be wrong because "70 percent of [the American people] endorse capital punishment." As O'Sullivan paints it, this is "the latest skirmish in the ongoing culture war" between "the people" and those "elites," including Ryan's approving Northwestern University audience with their "obscene" applause. By overlooking the religious perspective, O'Sullivan missed hearing the emphatic anti-death penalty voices of Pope John Paul II, the Catholic bishops, and leaders of many other-than-Roman-Catholic church bodies who, thus, also had to be wrong, if not evil. Had he monitored the whole religious front, O'Sullivan could also have found some pro-capital punishment elites, especially among "evangelicals" or the "Christian right" often the politically best-connected of American religious leaders. From many of them, he would have heard enthusiastic support for capital punishment. Why? They usually quote some biblical passage or invoke ancient precedents, in or out of context, to justify the killing. In doing so, they counteract their own views of conversion, repentance, and eternal destiny.
AQA UNIT AWARD SCHEME LE3757 deterrence and reformation; 2. what is meant by the terms, corporal punishment and capital punishment ; 3. at least two religious views concerning punishment http://www.neab.ac.uk/syllabus/other/npra/units/le3757.htm
Extractions: AQA UNIT AWARD SCHEME CODE NO: CENTRE: CARR HILL HIGH SCHOOL LEA: LANCASHIRE UNIT TITLE: MORAL ISSUES (UNIT 3): PUNISHMENT CURRICULUM AREA: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION UNIT DESCRIPTION: The student will learn through discussion and written activities about moral issues concerning punishment. S/he will also study living conditions in a British prison. PROCEDURES FOR MAKING AND RECORDING ASSESSMENT: Assessed by the teacher through inspection of work in student's folder (1-6) and through observation (7). Recorded on an assessor's summary sheet incorporating a teacher checklist (1-7). UNIT SPECIFICATION: All outcomes must be demonstrated. OUTCOMES TO BE ACCREDITED EVIDENCE TO BE OFFERED In successfully completing this unit the student has shown knowledge of:
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 Research Guide and a victim's mother; opposing views of two US to galvanize and empower the religiouscommunity in the United States to work against capital punishment. http://www.bu.edu/library/research-guides/cappun.html
Death Penalty to galvanize and empower the religious community in and the death penalty the viewsof experts Supreme Court Decisions Click on capital punishment for full http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/death.htm
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At Home With ChristiansUnite.com - Your Christian Resource Community Baptist conventions have voiced contrasting views on capital the Texas Ethics andReligious Liberty Committee Convention in 2000 that capital punishment is a http://news.christiansunite.com/baptist/baptist03015.shtml
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Extractions: www.vcu.edu/uns RICHMOND, Va. — "Religion, Politics and the 2000 Elections," and capital punishment are some of the topics being discussed at the Virginia Commonwealth University lecture series beginning in February. Now in its fifth year, the series explores issues in philosophy and religious studies with widespread applications and implications. "We created the series because there are so many issues in this field that have obvious connections to the public, for example, how one lives one’s life," said Peter Vallentyne, VCU chair of philosophy and religious studies. "And there are many knowledgeable professors at the university that can provide some insight into these areas." On ; Barbara Hartung, Esq., a criminal defense lawyer specializing in capital cases, will present reasons why capital punishment should be abolished. By examining its implementation in Virginia, she will argue that capital punishment fails to meet the fundamental requirements of equal treatment and equal justice for those condemned to die. ; Lindon Eaves, Ph.D., a professor of human genetics, will discuss the relationship between scientific and religious world views. He will identify some of the main issues that unite or divide the two and suggest ways in which a more positive conversation can take place.
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Extractions: January 8, 2001, The Nation.com Conservative religious groups, representing an enormous constituency and wielding obvious political clout, may be the power that turns the tide of public opinion decisively against the death penalty. Strong support for capital punishment among Christian conservatives has long led an uneasy coexistence with ideals of life, love and tolerance, but until recently this hypocrisy stood unquestioned in the public arena. In the past couple of years, however, Catholic leaders have firmly established the Church's opposition to the death penalty, while leaders of the fundamentalist Christian community have experienced a dramatic turnaround in their stance on the issue. With the support of these leaders comes the possibility that one day soon the majority of Americans may actively oppose the death penalty. The 1998 execution of Karla Faye Tucker, who became a born-again Christian while in prison, shattered faith in capital punishment in the right-wing evangelical community. Led by Pat Robertson, Christian conservatives had called for clemency in Tucker's case, citing her religious conversion as a reason for mercy. When their efforts failed and Tucker was executed, Robertson was horrified, denouncing the "animal vengeance" corrupting American society. Soon after Tucker's execution, the leading evangelical publication Christianity Today ran an editorial with the revolutionary headline "Evangelical Instincts Against Her Execution Were Right, But Not Because She Was a Christian." Criticizing capital punishment as discriminatory and vengeful, the editors concluded that "the death penalty has outlived its usefulness." To the delight of abolitionist groups
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Extractions: M ORAL D EBATES O F O UR T IMES The year began in 1998 with numerous media reflections on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Roe vs. Wade decision and the thirty to thirty-five million abortions that the ruling legalized. (In fact, three years earlier in 1995, Norma McCorvey [known as Jane Roe], the woman whose fight for the right to an abortion led to the 1973 Supreme Court decision, said that she disavowed her position and had been baptized by the national head of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.) In January of that year, a New York Times /CBS News telephone survey of 1,101 Americans found one- half viewing "abortion [as] the same thing as murdering a child" and a general preference toward restricting the procedure. For instance, when asked whether a pregnant woman should be able to get a legal abortion if her pregnancy would force her to interrupt her career, only 25% said yesdown from 37% in 1989. With the conclusion of this anniversary year, studies of The Alan Guttmacher Institute found a decrease in the number of abortion providers in the United States and reported the lowest abortion rate since 1975. (Click here for the
Extractions: sanders@uchicago.edu Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will speak on the morality of capital punishment at the conference "A Call for Reckoning: Religion and the Death Penalty" sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life at the University of Chicago Divinity School. On January 25, 2002, Justice Scalia will join prominent scholars of politics, religion and law to consider the religious dimensions of the death penalty. The conference will also include other political officials who enact and enforce capital punishment laws: Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, former Senator Paul Simon, and Beth Wilkinson, prosecutor in the Timothy McVeigh trial, are all scheduled to speak. Should the attacks of September 11 and the war on terrorism alter our views on the death penalty? Is it just to mete out capital punishment for crimes like those committed by Timothy McVeigh? Should the same punishment be applied in "routine" homicides, even when the guilt of the accused is uncertain? The conference organizers argue that there are deep moral issues at stake in these questions, and religious dialog should be part of our response. Yet, they say, much of our current thinking about capital punishment does not take seriously the religious arguments for and against capital punishment or the implications of religious beliefs. In fact, religious perspectives on capital punishment are not usually explored beyond an occasional Biblical reference to "an eye for an eye," or general calls for mercy and forgiveness.
The Innocents On Death Row An irreversible punishment. be imposed and what protections defendants in capitalcases should for the 200plus million who do not share their religious views. http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2002/07/03/03edit.htm
Extractions: A federal judge in New York City has dared to say and not just say, but put down on paper in an official ruling what has been obvious but largely unremarked upon by most of the legal community: The growing number of exonerations of death row inmates because of DNA and other evidence creates an "undue risk of executing innocent people."
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Extractions: FALL RIVER HERALD-NEWS Sun., Feb. 28, 1999 Separating church and state By MICHAEL W. FREEMAN FALL RIVER When Bishop Sean P. O'Malley announced Thursday he was opposed to capital punishment, he said he hoped to influence Catholic legislators to vote against the death penalty, even if that's unpopular with voters. O'Malley issued a pastoral letter outlining his position, and said he hoped the letter would "help people understand what the church's teaching is." In doing so, O'Malley ignited a debate that's been controversial for decades: not the death penalty, but whether Catholic legislators should follow the teachings and values of the church, even when they're at odds with the views of a majority of Americans. In his pastoral letter, O'Malley noted the church has been consistently "pro-life" on the issue of abortion, and should also take a stand against the death penalty to demonstrate that all life has value. Polls nationally and in Massachusetts, though, indicate a majority of voters support the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion, and an even larger majority favors the death penalty. In his pastoral letter, O'Malley cited Catholic principles for his opposition to both abortion and capital punishment, writing "Killing murderers does not deter murders, but, rather, promotes an attitude that life is cheap and that when we have the power, is all right to kill."
