Does Religion Justify the Murder of Troy Davis? [Updated]
Does your conscience, religious or secular, feel outrage? And does your heart cry? These, not dogma, creed, purity or piety, are the signs that your soul is awake.
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Labor Day Reading: An Innocent Man Sent “To Dust” by the State
A recent story in the New Yorker on the execution of an innocent man seldom mentions religion, though the elements are all there.
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America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty; Or, If it Was Good Enough for Jesus and Socrates…
The United States is still using the logic of vengeance in enforcing the death penalty, and it is the only Western country within its primary coalitions to do so. When did it start? How can it end? What is wrong with us?
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