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capital punishment

  1. O

    Lay Down Your Stone

    Date June 10, 2024 | Lay Down Your Stone Verse John 8:7 (NIV): "When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, ‘Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.’" Ezekiel 33:11 (NIV): "Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the...
  2. zippy2006

    Death Penalty - Non-Religious Arguments

    I have never studied the topic of capital punishment from a purely non-religious angle. After listening to Alasdair MacIntyre's recent controversial paper on human dignity I am curious to raise this topic on CF. My hunch is that MacIntyre is right, and as a corollary, when confined to...
  3. SummerMadness

    Dylann Roof appeals death sentence in Charleston church slayings

    Dylann Roof appeals death sentence in Charleston church slayings Dylann Roof's appeal in his 2015 church massacre conviction focuses on killer's competency to stand trial Well, some of them were among the crowd that descended on the Capitol on January 6, they tried and failed.
  4. SummerMadness

    South Carolina's approval of firing squad, electric chair called 'chilling'

    South Carolina's approval of firing squad, electric chair called 'chilling'
  5. public hermit

    Burning heretics

    On this day (October 27) in 1553, Michael Servetus was burned at the stake in Geneva for spreading heretical beliefs concerning the Trinity. Michael Servetus - Wikipedia I cannot make sense of executing others for heretical beliefs. But, for better or worse, Christians have done just that. It...
  6. Dale

    Executions Can Save Lives

    People who don’t believe that executions can stop further murders, and other crimes, should take a look at the criminal career of Paul Eugene Rowles (1948-2013). He first raped and killed Linda Fida, 20, in 1972, at an apartment complex in Miami. Her husband found her dead, naked body in the...
  7. zippy2006

    Christianity and Capital Punishment

    By now it should be well-known that Pope Francis has revised the Catholic Catechism to say that capital punishment is inadmissible. What do you think about the relationship between Christianity and capital punishment? I want to hear from all Christians, and I also want to give Catholics a...
  8. Fish and Bread

    Executing 7 men in 10 days this Easter will not restore justice to Arkansas

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  9. Fish and Bread

    Slain Florida priest begs mercy from beyond grave for accused

    Link: Slain Florida priest begs mercy from beyond grave for accused - BBC News Excerpt: