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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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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]"

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