... things should be clear from reading the above: first, that Catholics are not required, and indeed are not able, to oppose the death penalty using the same philosophical guidelines as we do to oppose such grave evils as ... it is not inherently wrong for the state to choose to impose this penalty under certain circumstances and that we may on occasion disagree with our fellow Catholics about specific ...

... the Rev. Raphael Warnock, said it was appropriate the march should end there because King opposed the death penalty."This is the house of God, but it is also the house of a great servant of God whose ... standing for executing people for no reason."She said she would not give up even if her brother is put to death on Tuesday. Rejection of his appeals so far has been on procedural grounds, she said."I ...

... had been murdered years before, to speak to Alaskan lawmakers about her opposition to the death penalty. Many of those lawmakers later said that listening to Marietta convinced them to change ... and they were all photographs of family members who had been disappeared. Now this is another kind of death penalty; it's not the kind we think about in the U.S. but it's state-sponsored execution. Really it ...

... Barack Obama found his inner Scalia and declared it a miscarriage of justice."I have said repeatedly that I think that the death penalty should be applied in very narrow circumstances for the most egregious of crimes," he told ... South Side into giving confessions for crimes that they didn't commit -- men who ended up on death row. Obama, famously, was an organizer on the South Side of Chicago in ...

... with the whole persona of the moral crusaders, don't forget what's truly important. The death of these little babies is neither a 'right' or 'left' issue, it is one of truth. Have mercy on all those ... and spent years in prison and then later were found to be innocent. I think this is why we need to really rethink the death penalty. Now Pharaoh has these dreams and he calls all of his wise men in and ...

... have for the people who made that "argument", or took it seriously.  It was a sham, as are basically all of the death penalty positions (except the basic one that we should not execute anyone.  That brings me to ... This man was guilty of kidnapping, raping repeatedly, and then choking and beating to death two young women.  As I have stated often lately, it is amazing to me that I am ...