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News and Developments 2008: Religion

BOOKS: Jesus on Death Row

Posted: December 03, 2008
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Mark Osler, a former federal prosecutor and present faculty member at a conservative Christian law school in Texas, has written Jesus on Death Row: The Trial of Jesus and American Capital Punishment. The book offers a comparison between the trial and execution of Jesus and a capital case conducted in the U.S. justice system.

NEW RESOURCES: Why Some Countries Have the Death Penalty and Others Do Not

Posted: June 17, 2008
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A new study has been released that explores the correlations between countries’ legal, political, and religious systems and their use of the death penalty. Professors David Greenberg from New York University and Valerie West of John Jay College examined data from 193 nations to test why some countries regularly use capital punishment while others have abandoned it altogether. They found, “In part, a country’s death penalty status is linked to its general punitiveness towards criminals.

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Posted: May 15, 2008
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United Methodists Call for Abolition of the Death Penalty in Texas

Posted: May 05, 2008
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May 5, 2008

HULIQ.com

The Worldwide United Methodist Church sent a message to Texas during the General Conference held in Ft. Worth, TX. The General Conference passed a resolution calling for the specific abolition of the death penalty in Texas. The United Methodist Church has had a position against the use of the death penalty for more than 50 years and reaffirmed that specific position in separate resolutions for the whole church as well.

Death Penalty / Consistent Life Ethic Book

Posted: May 01, 2008
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Consistently Opposing Killing: From Abortion to Assisted Suicide, the Death Penalty, and War edited by Rachel M. MacNair and Stephen Zunes published by Praeger / Greenwood  

Exploring the complexities of death penalty, redemption

Posted: April 30, 2008
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By Karen Campbell
Boston Globe
April 3, 2008

Book Review: Change of Heart
By Jodi Picoult
Atria, 447 pp., $26.95

Death and the Chaplain

Posted: April 30, 2008
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By Kiko Martinez
San Antonio Current
April 30, 2008

Religious Resources Login

Posted: April 10, 2008
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Commentary: Death penalty law follows spirit of ’56

Posted: April 02, 2008
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A UMNS Commentary
By John C. Goodwin*
March 28, 2008

"You have women clergy in The United Methodist Church?" The question was posed to me several years ago by Sister Dorothy Briggs, a new friend in the movement to abolish the death penalty.

Acknowledging that she knew very little about the Protestant church, she was delighted to learn that most Protestant churches ordain women. She was especially pleased to learn that The United Methodist Church has female bishops.

ARKANSAS: Convention backs death penalty abolition; bishop offers new vision for diocese

Posted: February 28, 2008
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February 28, 2008

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas, meeting February 22-23 for its 136th Diocesan Convention hosted by the state's Northeast Convocation and St. Mark's Church, Jonesboro, heard Bishop Larry R. Benfield offer a new vision for the diocese.