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Article: Capital punishment. (Notes on Moral Theology: 1992)
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- Theological Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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In major metropolitan areas, it is now customary for the late evening news to begin with a review of the day's murders. This serves as a factual counterpart to the innumerable fictional murders of primetime entertainment. Crime and the ineffectiveness of our society's response to it have been an important theme in many recent elections. The liberal climate that once led many people to expect that the ten-year moratorium on executions that obtained in the U. S. from 1967 to 1977 might lead to abolition, either by a definitive Supreme Court decision holding that the death penalty was unconstitutional or by public forbearance, now seems irretrievably remote. While the U. S. ...
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