CAPITAL PUNISHMENT:The Mailbox senceless murders. What you mean is that none of the worlds religious leaders can Thepage is a statement of my political views, and I made that blatently http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/floridajustice/ccadpmail.htm
Extractions: Yet after all of this, it still takes up so much of your time that you feel it necessary to campaign to make sure that other people die, even setting up mock webpages of people sentenced to die who are trying to save their lives, or simply asking for a little human contact before they're killed....what kind of satisfaction would someone take in doing such a thing ? Does it somehow 'even the score' ? You said "NONE of the worlds religious leaders are the surviving family members of the victims of brutal and senceless murders." What is your ultimate goal ? Ours is to end state murder / executions so that no one regardless of rank, position in society, serial killer or politician, that NO ONE can ever be justified in taking the life of another human being for any reason, EVER again. Over half the world has done this already, and we wait for the US to take its place and set an example for China, Cuba, and other countries that you condemn for their human rights abuses... Thanks for your message...
Pro Capital Punishment Page changed their meaning to suit their own personal views. above do not reflect any religiousbeliefs on that there is no Biblical support for capital punishment. http://www.wesleylowe.com/cp.html
Extractions: before you leave. It's funny because it's true! There are no words to describe what happened on that tragic day. Many innocent Americans have suffered the attack of terrorists and I would like to ask you to take a moment and ask for the healing of all of those who survived and for all of those who did not. Let us ask God for them to be safe on His Loving Arms. Bombs and destruction might seem big to our eyes, but much stronger is our love; the love that God has placed in our hearts. Let us never forget that our prayers will be heard and that He will answer. "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my influence, that Your hand would be with me, Your servant, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" So God granted His favored child the request. 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 Introduction
Daily Kos: Significance Of Atkins V. Virginia I fail to see, however, how the views of other polls, or international opinion, orreligious consensus comfort to the opponents of capital punishment, and sets http://www.dailykos.com/archives/000056.html
Extractions: Significance of Atkins v. Virginia The Supreme Court's historic 6-3 decision prohibiting the execution of mentally retarded murderers may well signal the beginning of the end of the death penalty. With Justice Sandra Day OConnor now firmly in the anti-capital punishment camp (a 180-degree position shift), Atkins v. Virginia continues the present day, nationwide, multi-front assault against the death penalty. The courts far-right Conservatives are livid, not because mentally disabled individuals can now avoid the death penalty, but because they fear for the very existence of capital punishment. This fear runs so deep that the dissenters did away with the formality of writing I respectfully dissent, opting instead for the terse I dissent. In the pedantic world of Supreme Court jurisprudence, this is the equivalent of up yours! So what exactly is this decision all about? The central tent of this decision is the 8th Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment. According to Supreme Court precedent, [Cruel and unusual punishments are] modes of punishment that are inconsistent with modern standards of decency, as evinced by objective indicia, the most important of which is legislation enacted by the countrys legislatures. Chief Justice William Rehnquist makes much hay of this, reminding us that legislation is the "clearest and most reliable objective evidence of contemporary values." Fair enough.
Extractions: The world scientific press has been recently inundated with a lot of publications about new hypotheses concerning the origin of a human being. The central question of them all is the extent of our relation with Neanderthal man. Scientists of the whole world have been truing to answer this question since the day the first Neanderthal man was found in 1856 in Germany (on the Neanderthal plain, not far from Dusseldorf). Neanderthal mans resemblance to homo sapiens made people ascribe horrible vices to the creature More details Britain's Former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook says he hopes people expecting quick victory in the Iraqi war will be right. For Cooks part, he says he has had enough bloody and needless war. This week British troops were brave in assaults and firm under incredibly severe weather conditions. They are too disciplined to speak openly about it, but I think they ask themselves why British troops must pay for mistakes committed by American politicians More details Allied troops get closer and closer to Baghdad, which spurs intrigues about the restoration of the Iraqi capital after the war is over. The war is not going to end soon, although the American administration does not have any doubts about the coming victory of the anti-Iraqi coalition. They discuss other problems already how much money to allocate, where, and for which purposes
Capital Punishment imprisoned, or tortured because of his political views. of his color, race, religiousbackground, class have been sentenced to capital punishment Its execution http://phrmg.org/monitor1999/jan99-capital.htm
Extractions: The bi-monthly publication of the PHRMG: Capital Punishment: During 1998, four detainees were sentenced to death. What distinguishes this year from others is that the death penalty was executed against two detainees out of four, by an order from Yasser Arafat. On 30 August 1998, Muhammad Kamal Abu Sultan (28, married and father to one child, from Jabalia Gaza, working for the MI) and Raed Kamal Abu Sultan (24, single, from Jabalia, working for the border forces) were gunned down at the Palestinian Police headquarters in Gaza. On 29 August 1998, the Military Court in Gaza sentenced the two brothers, together with their third brother Faris (30, married and father to 3 children, from al-Nusseirat refugee camp, working for the GI), to death for the murder of two brothers from al-Khaldi family: Muhammad Ibrahim Ribah al-Khaldi and Majdi Ibrahim Ribah al-Khaldi. Muhammad al-Khaldi worked in the Political Direction. His brother Majdi worked for the GI.
In Bad Company - Death Penalty Nations Marked By Extremism But US defense of capital punishment, writes PNS Associate is driven by the zealousviews of Christian s gallery of despots, communists and religious extremists http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/dp/2002-0822-PNS-Death penalty nations m
Extractions: Why would George Bush line up with the likes of Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in defending the death penalty? A look at the global pattern of capital punishment points to a disquieting answer. With few exceptions, the nations that have abolished capital punishment or discontinued its use are secular democracies. They include every nation in Europe except Belarus, and every country in Latin America except Cuba and Guatemala. Among the other death penalty abolitionists are Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and the Republic of South Africa. Newly democratic Russia has suspended executions, and pledged to abolish the death penalty. Those who retain the death penalty fall into four slots. The first is the entire Islamic world, with the exception of Turkey, which has a secular democracy, and the former Soviet Republics of Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. The third is what remains of the communist world: China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cuba. The fourth is a grab bag of authoritarian governments, including Guatemala, Belarus, Burma and Zimbabwe.
Front Page, Freethought Today, December 1996 church in December where only religious views are allowed ask for the abolition ofcapital punishment, to work the same diligence they provide religious displays http://www.ffrf.org/fttoday/dec96/sign.html
Extractions: The Freedom From Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wisconsin, placed a sign at the State Capitol in Madison on December 16, "in recognition of the Winter Solstice season and freethought views." The Foundation received a permit to place the sign for two weeks in the first floor of the Capitol rotunda. The following statement, by Anne Gaylor, Foundation president, was distributed to press: The Foundation placed a red, white and blue banner in the Capitol Rotunda in December of 1993 and again in December of 1995, which said: "State/Church Keep Them Separate," a cherished (by most) constitutional principle. Our country was first among nations to establish that principle, first to recognize in a written constitution that entanglement of church and state was dangerously divisive, and first not to pretend that its leaders had a pipeline to a deity. Our banner was modest in size, completely dwarfed by a three-story Christmas tree and a nine-foot-tall Jewish menorah. In December of 1993 our banner was displayed without incident. However, on December 18, 1995, when our duly-applied for, approved permit had 12 more days to run, the Foundation was informed by phone at 10:30 a.m. that the permit for the banner was being rescinded, and if we did not remove it by noon, Capitol security would. And they did, not handing it to staff members who were present, but locking it in the basement, where, we were told, we could retrieve it later.
Catholic Social Teaching -- Capital Punishment as well as 'important moral and religious issues,' And so The resumption of capitalpunishment after a long did constitute cruel and unusual punishment and so http://www.osjspm.org/cst/cappun.htm
Extractions: Other resources on capital punishment. Introduction In 1974, out of a commitment to the value and dignity of human life, the U.S. Catholic Conference, by a substantial majority, voted to declare its opposition to capital punishment. As a former president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops pointed out in 1977, the issue of capital punishment involves both "profound legal and political questions as well as 'important moral and religious issues,'" And so we find that this issue continues to provoke public controversy and to raise moral questions that trouble many. This is particularly true in the aftermath of widely publicized executions in Utah and Florida and as a result of public realization that they are awaiting execution in various prisons. The resumption of capital punishment after a long moratorium which began in 1967, is the result of a series of decisions by the United States Supreme Court. In the first of these decisions
UU Church Of Nashua in a faith tradition that views and affirms is why the arguments against capitalpunishment are now or operational than they are philosophical or religious. http://www.uunashua.org/sermons/capital.shtml
Extractions: Webmaster ... Printer-friendly version The last Presidential candidate of a major party to oppose the death penalty was the then Governor of Massachusetts, Michael Dukakis, in 1988. The way in which he fumbled a question during one of the debates about what his response would be if someone were to rape and murder his wife, was one of a number of factors Mr. Dukaksis' opponents used to portray him as an ineffectual individual who was not up to handling the Presidential office. Four years later then Governor Clinton interrupted his campaign for the Presidency to be in Little Rock, Arkansas during the execution of Ricky Rector, a man whose mental capacities were so diminished that, by all reliable accounts, he was not even aware that his last meal was his last meal. It appears, then, that support for the death penalty has become something of an article of faith for those who seek the highest office in our land. To oppose it is a political liability. In the New York Senate race one of the few points of agreement between Representative Lazio and Mrs. Clinton is that they have both expressed support for the death penalty. Closer to home, our own Governor last year vetoed a bill that would have outlawed the death penalty in New Hampshire. Her veto may well have reflected her personal views, but it had to have been cast with at least one eye on her forthcoming re-election effort. So, as I say, it's very politically risky these days to oppose capital punishment at whatever level of office one may be running for. But the fact that it has become, by and large, a political non-issue is a issue in and of itself, I feel. Has it become so accepted that we need not even talk about it anymore?
Sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/dp/reldir/rick1 statements opposing capital punishment are products of socialaction committees ratherthan votes by the membership. Polls show that religious people favor the http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/dp/reldir/rick1
Golden Gate [X]Press Online | Two Views Of An Execution html/storys01.php on line 47 Two views of an crowd, which was dominated by religiousand human and social welfare, voiced her opposition to capital punishment. http://xpress.sfsu.edu/storys01.php?storyid=3075
Was Joe Leiberman Right - PrisonFellowship It was raised in 1860 by slaveowners who attacked Abraham Lincoln and the abolitionistsfor wanting to impose their religious views. Thank God they did http://www.pfm.org/PrisonFellowship/ChannelRoot/Issues/ColsonsPerspective/Was Jo
Extractions: Starting Line Search for Welcome About PFM Chuck Colson FAQ Press ... Internships Get Involved Donate Volunteer Prayer Channel Pen Pal Program ... Charitable Giving Issues 25 Years A Celebration Capital Punishment Changed Lives Colson's Perspective ... Research Prisoner Resources Inside Journal Resources Resource Center Email Know Jesus? Our country is still licking its wounds from a contentious campaign that ended in agonizing deadlock. Despite the postelection ordeal, one good thing came out of the campaign: a resounding reaffirmation of the role of religion in public life. Ironically, it came not from the right but from the left. Campaigning in Detroit, Sen. Joe Lieberman declared, "We need to reaffirm our faith and renew the dedication of our nation and ourselves to God and God's purpose." And he argued, "We need a greater place for faith in America's public life." Some observers were scandalized (though not as scandalized as they were when Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell said the same thing). Was Lieberman right? Of course! He was merely echoing the words of our Founders. John Adams famously said, "Our Constitution is made for a religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other."
Soulwise Presidential Candidates Often At Odds With Their gun laws. While his church opposes the death penalty, Bush believes in capitalpunishment for heinous crimes. And what of other candidates' religious views? http://www.canoe.ca/LifewiseHeartSoulwise00/1108_president_ap.html
Extractions: Enter Discussion Forum As summer winds down and fall approaches, as the heat of the season is replaced with the promise of cooler weather, the Web Theology Site's editors would like to move the discussion from the more relaxing and less strenuous topic of Practicing the Presence of God to the more difficult and indeed sobering issue of the death penalty. Very few subjects have inflamed the passions of religious leaders and their communities as consistently and as forcefully as the debate over the validity of capital punishment. More recently, the executions of Karla Faye Tucker (in 1998) and Timothy McVeigh have added to the environment surrounding the dialog over the efficacy of this practice. The McVeigh execution was supported by the majority of the general public and even many death penalty opponents were apt to consider the use of the criminal justice system's ultimate punishment because of the heinousness of McVeigh's crime. Yet, interestingly enough, a number of prominent conservatives have openly questioned the logic of putting criminals to death. Perhaps the most notable supporter of Tucker was the Reverend Pat Robertson. While still supporting the death penalty in a general sense, Robertson had argued that Tucker had become a new person during her time in prison and that to execute her was, "an act of barbarity that was totally unnecessary."
Death Knell since October 2000, about 60 religious institutions in text articles related to capitalpunishment and the do not necessarily reflect the views of ACFnewsource http://www.acfnewsource.org/religion/death_knell.html
Extractions: Printer-friendly version E-mail this story to a friend Churches, synagogues and mosques ring bells for U.S. executions. The clang of church bells usually heralds sorrow or joy, but now the sound might become associated more with the moribund. An inter-religious group led by US. Dominican Sister Dorothy Briggs wants churches, monasteries, synagogues, mosques and temples across the country to ring their bells at 6 pm for two minutes on any day an execution takes place the U.S. Sister Dorothy is following the moral dictate of Pope John Paul II, which holds all human life sacred, and officially opposes the death penalty. Sister Dorothy and her group hope that the initiative will foster dialogue on a national scale about alternatives to the death penalty in America. Her order, the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine, have rung the bells for recent executions in Texas, Missouri and Virginia. Sister Dorothys "For Whom the Bell Tolls" campaign is not surprising given her Catholic faith, which holds every life as sacred no matter what crime the person has committed. Although the Sister is only starting her "For Whom the Bells Toll Campaign," since October 2000, about 60 religious institutions in 24 states have joined. This interfaith effort includes Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims and others. Sister Briggs hopes hoping that all these congregations commit to bell tolling, or that those without bells hang a black banner or drape on their buildings symbolizing death. She also recommend that the congregations hold prayer vigils or moments of silence for the person executed and pray for crime victims and their families.
Extractions: Jan. 1995 The underlying argument for gun control seems to be that the availability of guns causes crime. By extension, the availability of any weapon would have to be viewed as a cause of crime. What does the Bible say about such a view? Perhaps we should start at the beginning, or at least very close to the beginning in Genesis 4. In this chapter we read about the first murder. Cain had offered an unacceptable sacrifice, and Cain was upset that God insisted that he do the right thing. In other words, Cain was peeved that he could not do his own thing. Cain decided to kill his brother rather than get right with God. There were no guns available, although there may well have been a knife. Whether it was a knife or a rock, the Bible does not say. The point is, the evil in Cain's heart was the cause of the murder, not the availability of the murder weapon.
