Sentences with phrase «even against capital punishment»

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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.

Further, the shift in the focus of his argument from opposing capital punishment to opposing violence generally, even when it is exercised by the civil government against aggressors who would harm innocent people, would result in real injustice.

In the U.S., capital punishment still remains legal, even though it has consistently been found to be applied unfairly and to be an ineffective deterrent against crime.