Religion and the Death Penalty
Subtitle: A Call for Reckoning
Contributors: J. Budziszewski (Contributor); E. J. Dionne (Contributor); Avery Cardinal Dulles (Contributor); Stanley Hauerwas (Contributor); Frank Keating (Contributor); Gilbert Meilaender (Contributor); David Novak (Contributor); Erik C. Owens (Editor); John D. Carlson (Editor); Eric P. Elshtain (Editor)
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780802821720
Subjects: Religious groups; Religious social & pastoral thought & activity; Public Policy - Social Policy; Political; Religious aspects; Sociology; Politics - Current Events; Political Science; Congresses; Politics/International Relations; Capital punishment; Social History; Public Policy - Cultural Policy; Sociology of Religion
First sentence: Until at least the middle of the twentieth century it was generally agreed in the Catholic Church that the state had the right, and sometimes the duty, to impose the death penalty for certain heinous offenses.