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Article: Judge rejects church view on death penalty.(Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia thinks it's not imposed often enough)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 8, 2002
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A U.S. Supreme Court justice who is Catholic expressed disagreement Jan. 25 with the church's view that the death penalty should be imposed less often.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was part of a panel of government officials who spoke at the end of a daylong conference on "A Call for Reckoning: Religion and the Death Penalty." It was organized by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Scalia spoke after explaining that his personal and religious views do not affect his job on the court. His job, he said, is to apply the Constitution as it was written more than 200 years ago -- at a time when ...