Capital punishment
Date Submitted: 09/14/2001 01:04:51
Category: / Law & Government / Law Issues
Length: 2 pages (675 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Law Issues
Length: 2 pages (675 words)
Thesis : In principle a case can be made on moral grounds both supporting and opposing capital punishment.
Two different cases can be made. One is based on justice and the nature of a moral community. This leads to a defense of capital punishment. The second is based on love and the nature of an ideal spiritual community. This leads to a rejection of capital punishment.
JUSTICE AND THE NATURE OF MORAL COMMUNITY A central principal …
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…in each aother's lives.
In short, for the moment the Christian witness to society is this: first demonstrate that capital punishment can be administered in a just and efficient manner. Then we will debate with you as to whether capital punishment is in priciple necessary, fitting and right or whether a humane society will find non-lethal alternatives to protect citizens from persistently violent criminals. Until then the church should say 'no' to this extreme measure.
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