Entries tagged with “Mario Marazziti”
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Dec 01, 2021
More Than 2,000 Cities Worldwide Light Up Monuments in Global Protest Against Death Penalty
More than 2,000 cities across the world lit up monuments on November 30, 2021 in a global demonstration to raise awareness about the death penalty. The international campaign — called “Cities for Life” — was organized by the Community of Sant’Egidio, a lay Catholic association dedicated to social…
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Mar 11, 2016
BOOKS: “13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty”
The recent book, 13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty, by Mario Marazziti, explores the United States’ continuing use of the death penalty in a world community that is increasingly rejecting the practice. The Philadelphia Inquirer calls the book “an interesting, compelling look at the cultural and religious underpinnings of the death penalty and how we got here. More important, [Marazziti’s] interviews with U.S. death-row inmates — living…