Why I am Against Capital Punishment - a Roman Catholic Perspective
It is sometimes easy to understand why so many Americans speak in favor of capital punishment. All of the people condemned to death in the United States are murders. These people have committed horrible crimes. But as a Roman Catholic, I understand that I should not use my anger at the crime of murder, to excuse the murder of another human being. Just because someone in prison has killed another person does not give me the moral right to kill the prisoner. Only God can judge the souls of human beings, and take and give l
Some people might argue that capital punishment is morally justified because it simply is a version of the Biblical morality of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." In other words, if someone takes a life, the murderer should give his or her own life in return, and be condemned to die. But this old philosophy from the Bible was replaced by the forgiveness of Jesus, Jesus said to turn the other cheek, when one is hit by a blow, rather than lashing out at one's enemy, and asked God to forgive the people who condemned Him,
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