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Resolution Opposing the Death Penalty: Adopted unan­i­mous­ly by the General Assembly of the Texas Conference of ChurchesFebruary…

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Blackman, Paul H.:​“A cri­tique of the epi­demi­o­log­ic study of firearms and homi­cide”; 1 Homicide Studies 169…

PHILADELPHIA BAR ASSOCIATION RESOLUTION CALLING FOR A MORATORIUM ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT UNTIL SUCH TIME THAT FAIRNESS IN ITS ADMINISTRATION CAN BE ENSURED Adopted by the Board of Governors November 25, 1997, voting…

October 20, 1997As spir­i­tu­al lead­ers in the com­mu­ni­ty we Catholic Bishops of Texas are acute­ly aware of the vio­lence in our state. Despite a grow­ing reliance on longer sen­tences, more pris­ons, and more exe­cu­tions, our state’s crime rate…

The Vatican issued the defin­i­tive Latin lan­guage ver­sion of its Universal Catechism on September 9, 1997. The pri­ma­ry change in the cat­e­chism focus­es on legit­i­mate defense and the death penal­ty . The new ver­sion reads:​“The tra­di­tion­al teach­ing of the Church does not exclude … recourse to the death penal­ty when it is the only prac­ti­cal way to effi­cient­ly defend the lives of human beings from the unjust aggres­sor.” It con­tin­ues,​“Today, in fact, because the means…

American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and…

Furman v. Georgia 408 U.S. 238: Court ruled that the death penal­ty, as applied, was an arbi­trary pun­ish­ment and thus uncon­sti­tu­tion­al under the 8^th and…