Sentences with phrase «on capital punishment as»

Still, as with Buck, a victory for Tharpe would not have a broad effect on capital punishment as a whole.

Come on out and cheer on Capital Punishment as they take on the Gainesville All - Stars!

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He takes no position on capital punishment, abortion, or just war (the irresolvability of which he regards as indicative of our impoverished ethical conversation).

«Capital punishment on this particular occasion was inappropriate and any expressions of sympathy or compassion are extended in my capacity as a private individual and not in any professional or public capacity.»

As a traditionally minded Anglo - Catholic, I must say that the Catholic Church's strange new position on capital punishment is one major reason why I would find accepting Roman Catholicism, at best, a compromise with a defective faith.

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.

As everyone knows, there is a tremendous cultural struggle going on in national politics, manifested in disputes over abortion, capital punishment, gun control, crime, welfare, affirmative action, gay rights, school prayer, and other kindred things, many of which have a subtle racial dimension.

Catholic authorities justify the right of the State to inflict capital punishment on the ground that the State does not act on its own authority but as the agent of God, who is supreme lord of life and death.

When death came to be understood as the ultimate evil rather than as a stage on the way to eternal life, utilitarian philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham found it easy to dismiss capital punishment as «useless annihilation.»

Black church people receive limited guidance from their national judicatories on such issues as abortion, homosexuality, capital punishment, women's rights.

Capital punishment's lack of demonstrated superiority as a deterrent (the evidence for its effectiveness being at best mixed), the capacity of society to protect itself equally well by permanently imprisoning those who are currently being executed (which is possible at limited marginal cost, especially when one takes into account the cost of the extended trial procedures and interminable appeals and reviews which usually accompany capital punishment)-- all these points are important, but their utility is chiefly as rebuttal arguments in response to the empirically weak but emotionally strong claims made on behalf of capital puniCapital punishment's lack of demonstrated superiority as a deterrent (the evidence for its effectiveness being at best mixed), the capacity of society to protect itself equally well by permanently imprisoning those who are currently being executed (which is possible at limited marginal cost, especially when one takes into account the cost of the extended trial procedures and interminable appeals and reviews which usually accompany capital punishment)-- all these points are important, but their utility is chiefly as rebuttal arguments in response to the empirically weak but emotionally strong claims made on behalf of capital punicapital punishment)-- all these points are important, but their utility is chiefly as rebuttal arguments in response to the empirically weak but emotionally strong claims made on behalf of capital punicapital punishment.

They recognize that «a spirit of callous disregard for life shows itself in direct assaults on human life such as abortion and capital punishment, as well as in senseless violence, escalating militarism, racism, xenophobia, and the skewed accumulation of wealth and life - sustaining resources.»

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.

A country such as the Gambia and other countries that were notoriously known for capital punishment has recently placed a moratorium on it

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.

«On that basis alone I would support the reintroduction of capital punishment to serve as a deterrent.»

He has gone on to reinvent himself as a centrist media figure, forming an unlikely double act with Labour MP Diane Abbott on BBC 1's This Week, hosting his own discussion show (Dinner with Portillo) and fronting documentaries on capital punishment and mental health.

There were some remarkable ideas in there, like a ban on the burka, the reintroduction of capital punishment, the privatisation of the BBC and the renaming of the August bank holiday as Margaret Thatcher Day.

«Medical ethicists challenge court ruling on lethal injection in Alabama case: Ruling in death penalty case would have a chilling effect on physicians» willingness to serve as experts in capital punishment trials.»

Since that epic chronicle of two inner - city Chicago teens» crusades to become professional basketball players — one of the most acclaimed and successful nonfiction features of its decade — James has gone on to make other probing studies of American life, such as the intensely personal Stevie, the capital - punishment exposé At the Death House Door, and last year's The Interrupters, a devastating immersion in the work of street - violence mediators.

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If you were assigned specific paper topic it is probable you will have less your own ides then you could have on the general topics such as smoking, capital punishment, AIDS, etc..

And while parole ineligibility doesn't carry nearly the same gravity as capital punishment, Rankin says the provision is still extraordinary — it remains the only instance where juries are asked to make a recommendation on sentencing.

As the country's economic crisis deepens, some states have abandoned capital punishment and others are considering doing so, primarily on pragmatic grounds...

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.

For example, Stevens's thoughts on his opinion in the 2008 Baze v. Rees capital punishment case seemed, for the first time I've seen, to dispel the notion that Stevens is inching toward an absolute rejection of the death penalty as his time on the Court nears an end.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

«We either trust juries or we don't,» writes Michael Cernovich on Roper v. Simmons, as his co-bloggers continue to duke it out over whether the Supremes were right to ban capital punishment for minors.

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Kansas and Oklahoma have seen similar bills this session, as lawmakers respond to recent court decisions on such hot - button issues as school funding, abortion, capital punishment, and the Ten Commandments.

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

Later, he expounded, «I'm torn on capital punishment generally; but treating abortion as homicide means what it means.»