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{{quote|the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person<ref>[https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/08/02/180802a.html]</ref>}} | {{quote|the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person<ref>[https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/08/02/180802a.html]</ref>}} | ||
==See also== | |||
* [[Stoning]] | |||
* [[Crucifixion]] | |||
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[[Category:Law]] | [[Category:Law]] | ||
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Revision as of 11:35, 8 March 2020
Theists have a range of views, often motivated by religious belief, on capital punishment.
{{Justice in God’s eyes requires that the response to an offense—whether against God or against humanity—be proportionate. The lex talionis (“law of the talion”) served as a restraint, a limitation, to ensure the punishment would be no greater than the crime. Yet implied therein is a standard—that the punishment should be at least as great as the crime. One frequently finds among Christians the belief that Jesus’s so-called “love-ethic” sets aside the “law of the talion.” To the contrary, Jesus affirms the divine basis of Old Testament ethics. Nowhere does he set aside all requirements of civil law. [...] Indeed, just punishment is a thread running through the whole Bible. [1]}}
- "the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person[2]"