Capital punishment : a reader /

Capital punishment : a reader / [print] edited by Glen H. Stassen. - Cleveland, Ohio : Pilgrim Press, (c)1998. - ix, 229 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Leaven of forgiveness : murder victims' families stand against the death penalty Morality of anger Restoring justice People want an alternative to the death penalty On deterrence and the death penalty Deterrent effect of capital punishment : a cross-state analysis of the 1960s Christian ethics and capital punishment : a reflection Case against the death penalty Does it matter if the death penalty is arbitrarily administered? Refuting Nathanson Capital punishment : the classic Jewish discussion Biblical teaching on capital punishment Is capital punishment wrong? Death penalty and torture in Islamic thought Consistent ethic of life and the death penalty in our time Bipartisan death rows Who deserves to live? Who deserves to die? Reflections on capital punishment Capital punishment Capital punishment as the unconstitutional establishment of religion : a Girardian reading of the death penalty Religious orientation, race, and support for the death penalty How renewal in church practices can transform the death penalty debate Mary Sue Penn -- Walter Berns -- Howard Zehr -- William J. Bowers and Benjamin D. Steiner -- Ernest van den Haag -- Brian E. Forst -- Alexander Williams Jr. -- Hugo Adam Bedau -- Stephen Nathanson -- Ernest van den Haag -- Gerald J. Blidstein -- Glen H. Stassen -- Jacob J. Vellenga -- Mohammed Arkoun -- Joseph Cardinal Bernardin -- Peter L. Berger -- Norman P. Dake -- John Langan -- James McBride -- Robert L. Young -- Michael L. Westmoreland-White.



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Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects.
Capital punishment--Religious aspects.
Capital punishment--Biblical teaching.

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