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]]> Comment on The Catholic Church And The Death Penalty by Bruce Murray http://adtelevavi.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/the-catholic-church-and-the-death-penalty/#comment-754 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 02:56:22 +0000 http://adtelevavi.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/the-catholic-church-and-the-death-penalty/#comment-754 Here’s the research on the death penalty having the practical benefit of saving 15-18 lives for each execution of a guilty murderer:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,284336,00.html

]]> Comment on The Catholic Church And The Death Penalty by Bruce Murray http://adtelevavi.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/the-catholic-church-and-the-death-penalty/#comment-753 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 02:54:33 +0000 http://adtelevavi.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/the-catholic-church-and-the-death-penalty/#comment-753 In the prayers of the faithful tonight, we were asked to pray for an end to abortion, euthanasia, and the death penalty, all in a single petition. That amounted to saying, God, please stop the killing of the innocent prenatal child, and please stop the killing of defenseless sick people, but don’t take justice against killers. I was dazzled by the contradiction.

As a practical matter (as framed in the Catechism), every application of the death penalty saves 15-18 innocent lives. To date, there is no other known way to deter 15-18 murders, so even by the pragmatic standard raised in the Catechism, applying the death penalty for murder protects the innocent.

As a matter of divine justice, we have the consistent testimony in the Bible, including in the gospels where Jesus says that Pilate wouldn’t have the power to execute unless it were given him by God, and where the thief on the cross says he is punished justly because he is getting what his deeds deserve. We have a continuous record of Catholic tradition including Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas and several popes affirming the justice of the death penalty for murder. Even Pope Benedict allowed that Catholics are free to support capital justice for murderers.

It seems that some recent church leaders are playing a Protestant game of imposing modern sensibility over the apostolic tradition. How can we affirm Catholic tradition on all the other moral issues if we throw out the wisdom handed down over the centuries on the death penalty?

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