Sentences with phrase «about capital punishment»

As detailed in this post, Justice O'Connor's «evolving skepticism about capital punishment» during her tenure on the Supreme Court seemed to shift her from a fairly consistent vote to uphold death sentences to an unpredictable vote in capital cases.

Green has long been concerned with overlapping themes of domesticity, decoration, art history, food and social justice in her work, and continues to spend half of each year working on her widely - exhibited project about capital punishment, The Last Supper.

Tell what the World famous Social Organizations say about capital punishment.

You have your own opinion about capital punishment and provide enough arguments to the audience in order to support it.

Capital Punishment Term Paper Argument It is a fascinating work to write a term paper about capital punishment.

An introductory lesson, including a debate («Capital Punishment should be reintroduced to the UK»), about Capital Punishment.

I don't think one can endorse in any way that, whatever your views about capital punishment,» Mr Prescott said.

This would have been for her comments about capital punishment, in light of Troy Davis» execution in Georgia.

People may argue about capital punishment, people may argue about which list of sins should be used, but nobody argues about the right of the state to stop «heretics.»

Religion and the Death Penalty, which emerged from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and Millard Lind's The Sound of Sheer Silence and the Killing State offer much to extend and challenge thinking about capital punishment.

At RELEVANT, we've talked a lot about capital punishment and its relationship to the pro-life ethics, too.

Christian activist Shane Claiborne spoke to Jamie Cutteridge about capital punishment, Donald Trump and... More

Christian activist Shane Claiborne spoke to Jamie Cutteridge about capital punishment, Donald Trump and the US evangelicals who have lost track of Jes... More

I would totally go with treating [abortion] like any other crime up to and including hanging — which kind of, as I said, I'm kind of squishy about capital punishment in general, but I've got a soft spot for hanging as a form of capital punishment.

The movie's and the Illinois governor's conclusions - about capital punishment in this case - are exactly opposite.

Even when Americans worry (as we should) about capital punishment, those worries rarely spread to concern about the penal system in general.

We can see how this might be true if we consider an argument about capital punishment made by Camus.

What does the Bible teach about gender roles, about wealth and poverty, about violence, about capital punishment, about predestination?

The United States currently has more than three thousand inmates on death row because so many citizens are reluctant to be hard - nosed about capital punishment for murderers of the first degree.

«It's OK to exclude people who can't follow the law and their oaths as jurors, but you can't say that anyone with qualms about capital punishment is ineligible,» Richard Re, an assistant law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, told Business Insider in an email.

Not exact matches

Letterman asked about Bush's capital punishment record in Texas, whether there was a «circumstance you can imagine that might change your view of capital punishment» and is there were any statistics to show that the death penalty deterred crime.

The moral problem, as MacIntyre describes it, is evident enough: arguments about just war, abortion, capital punishment, or equality lead inevitably to shrill and sterile debate.

I appreciate Joseph Bottum's noble sentiments, but I wonder how his principle that «Jesus turned all our stories inside out,... especially the old, old ones about blood and blood's repayment,» which he applies to capital punishment, would apply to the story of war and just - war theory.

For example, can one really talk about the Commandment «You shall do no murder» and not raise such issues as war, capital punishment, euthanasia, or abortion?

George N. Boyd argues against the traditional position of the opponents of capital punishment that no crime ever «deserves» the death penalty, and suggests that the debate is not over what murderers deserve, but rather about how society should express and defend its fundamental values.

That's the point; you can, and people have, used Christianity to justify just about everything, including capital punishment, abolishing capital punishment, the murder of abortion doctors, opposing all murder, endorsing state sponsored assassination of enemies of the nation, becoming rich, giving away all your property, marriage, celibacy, hating Jews, wanting to support Jews, and a bunch of other things.

When there was a controversy about the Church's stand on capital punishment, for example, Richard was able to quote from what then - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had written him personally about the subject.

We like to say it's about the most heinous crimes, but really the biggest determinants in capital punishment are the race of the victim and the resources of the defendant.

... I'm not interested in talking about «capital punishment» as much as I am in talking about the ramifications of grace, mercy, forgiveness, and love.»

For example, when a murderer is executed and the question of capital punishment is raised, about which there is such divided opinion, the preacher should bring the meanings of the gospel and the meanings of the issue together in order that members of the congregation will think more about it and be better able to express their views with conviction and effect.

Still on the negative side, what is most frightening about this proposed bill is that, at a time when the United Nation and international communities are standing up against capital punishment, has become the ripped time for us as a nation to nose - dive into the out fashioned practice.

We need to have a debate about the fight against crime, and that must be wider than capital punishment alone.

Parties do not talk about retaining or repealing the ban on capital punishment; the issue is currently outside the democratic system.

The shadow justice minister talks to politics.co.uk about prison, reform and being opposed to capital punishment.

Hartley, a strong supporter of the death penalty, said she was concerned about McDonald's opposition to capital punishment.

It does pose some serious questions about the morality of Capital Punishment, but in terms of entertainment, it gets nowhere near to Leone's Dollar Trilogy.

A Short Film About Killing certainly had an impact, causing a debate in Poland that led to the abandonment of capital punishment.

But «Dexter» also offers an added philosophical punch, so that when you think about «Dexter,» you may also find yourself thinking about issues of capital punishment and vigilantism in different ways.

The film never seems to decide if it wants to be serious (Stanton, various speeches about the morality of capital punishment) or comic (Brando's overthetop wackiness, the jaunty score) or something in - between (Nicholson and Quaid).

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This fully resourced lesson is about corporal and capital punishment (The Death Penalty) and focuses on Christian perspectives.

In which our hero experiences Hope, the greatest gift * The bacon sandwich of regret * Somber reflections on capital punishment from the hangman * Famous last words * Our hero dies * Angels, conversations about * Inadvisability of misplaced offers regarding broomsticks * An unexpected ride * A world free of honest men * A man on the hop * There is always a choice They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.

Such topics as abortions, capital punishment, freedom of speech, and cloning are not accepted by most of the tutors because a lot has been already published about these issues.

The Lexus Project, a New York - based nonprofit that has waged war against Orange County Animal Services to keep Rufus alive, has worked to keep «dangerous dogs» across the country safe from capital punishment for about three years.

I love the fact that he keeps hammering away at everything a well - behaved citizen, whether of a liberal or conservative political persuasion, would have an informed opinion about — Abstract Expressionism, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, fast food, sweaty businessmen, big - breasted women, or capital punishment.

Sculptures of sandbags are taken from a newspaper article about Utah's re-instatement of firing squads as a means of capital punishment.

There was no argument about whether, say, capital punishment worked.

Murshed began by assisting the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies, writing submissions for about 60 prisoners potentially facing the death penalty, and later focused on the landmark Supreme Court case of Susan Kigula and 417 others, which held that the automatic death sentence was unconstitutional.

Nevertheless, spurred by this interesting and insightful commentary by Andrew Cohen about criminal cases in the Term just ended, I should note that the Supreme Court's work in the capital arena seems to be having an impact on the administration of capital punishment.

I agree entirely about your reservations on capital punishment, and they underlie my opposition to its practice as well.