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Capital Punishment: Latin America
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It turns out that "Capital Punishment" in Western Civilization is based upon a misreading of several texts of Scripture. There is great irony here. The ACLU, which opposes capital punishment, will not admit that Western Civilization is Christian Civilization, and that America was a Christian nation. The ACLU downplays the interaction of Law and Religion in the Western World. But Princes and Jurists have long been advised by the Popes and theological Doctors of the faith. Unfortunately, the civil magistrates have received both good and bad advice.
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The discovery of DNA provides an argument against capital punishment by stressing that the absence of a positive reading challenges other physical evidence that might indicate guilt. The finality of judgment that capital punishment serves is ... greatly limited. The fullest legal and judicial consequences are still evolving in American jurisprudence.
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To its authors the study suggests that America's capital punishment system is breaking down under the weight of its own mistakes. They point out that an appeals process burdened with the task of catching so much error is hugely expensive. Also it takes an inordinate amount of time.
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In 1810 a bill introduced in the British Parliament sought to abolish capital punishment for the offense of stealing five shillings or more from a shop. Judges and magistrates unanimously opposed the measure. In the House of Lords, the chief justice of the Kings Bench, Lord Ellenborough, predicted that the next step would be abolition of the death penalty for stealing five shillings from a house; thereafter no one could “trust himself for an hour without the most alarming apprehension that, on his return, every vestige of his property [would] be swept away by the hardened robber” (quoted by Herbert B. Ehrmann in “The Death Penalty and the Administration of Justice,” in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], p.415).
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The Rosicrucian Fellowship and many other Christian esoteric schools condemn the capital punishment in all circumstances. Among fundamentalist Christian denominations in America which support the death penalty, deterrence and incapacitation are cited as the main justification for the death penalty, as forgiveness and redemption is a fundamental attribute of Christian theology.
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