Sentences with phrase «against capital punishment as»
• Capital punishment: I currently lean against capital punishment as an institutionalized practice or as a matter of justice, but am working through this one at the moment.
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Wide use of the death penalty against blacks would continue through the 19th century and into the 20th, pushed by Southern whites who saw capital punishment as necessary to restrain a dangerous black population.
For this reason, some Lutheran theologians prefer to speak of «orders of preservation,» taking into account what God is doing to sustain the world under the conditions of sin, even using means sin - laden themselves, such as war and capital punishment, to fight against still more serious attacks on the goodness of God's creation.
For those who view deterrence as the primary purpose of punishment, the uncertainty of capital punishment as a deterrent provides the fatal argument against it.
Here the Pope seems to be opposing a long tradition, based on Scripture, which has defended capital punishment for its value as retribution for the evil done and as a deterrence against future crime.
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.
Founded in London originally to obtain an amnesty for prisoners of conscience but Amnesty have gone on to fight against torture and ill - treatment of prisoners, as well as against capital punishment.
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The problems American states are confronting in finding drugs to make lethal injections look kind and gentle lie in a growing global movement against capital punishment in which America is increasingly seen as part of an anti human rights «axis» along with Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia.