CAPITAL PUNISMENT - IMMORAL OR NOT
As a minority of US bishops once said, "We cannot teach that killing is wrong by killing."
The Catholic Church has spoken out repeatedly and passionately about the need to protect human life of every stage of existence. All issues and matters relating to the dignity and worth of human life fall with the realm of the fifth commandment, "You shall not kill." The Catholic Church consistently communicates the importance of human life.
As the late pope John Paul II once stated, "May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world. A sign of hope is the increasing recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil."
Capital punishment is one of those moral issues that divide society. Most people in favour of the death penalty think that it should only be for those that have committed brutal premeditated crimes, mass......
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