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IS THE DEATH PENALTY UNJUST?
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Justices Harry A. Blackmun and Antonin Scallia give opposing opinions in a ruling on a Texas case.
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The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense
by Ernest van den Haag
Against the American System of Capital Punishment
By Jack Greenberg
While the vast majority of U.S. Catholics support capital punishment, the Church's has been officially opposed to the death penalty for more than two decades.
U.S. Catholic Bishops' Statement on Capital Punishment
Pope John Paul II encyclical "Evangelium Vitae", 1995
American Bar Association's Call for Moratorium on Death Penalty, 1997
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