The Biblical Truth about America's Death Penalty

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UPNE, 2004 - 433 pages
An attorney and spiritual counselor and Catholic lay chaplain for Florida's prison system, Recinella looks in the Torah/Pentateuch for teachings that can inform debates on who deserves death, the authority to kill, required procedures, and the plight of the families of the victims. He concludes that the US death penalty cannot be supported by biblical truth, and provides sample resolutions for its abolition and moratorium. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
 

Table des matières

Trends in the American Death Penalty
3
Torah and Talmud
17
Beyond Platitudes
28
Who Deserves Death?
58
The Sanhedrin
82
Extrabiblical Courts and Romans 13
92
Biblical Deterrence
103
Summary of Part One
111
Innocence versus Closure
160
For Whom Is It a Detriment?
306
Summary of Part Two
324
Short form of an Abolition Resolution
345
Notes
361
Bibliography
393
Cases Cited
409
Index
423

PROCEDURES AND THE PLIGHT OF THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS?
117
Evidence Permitted
141

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