Since 1999 the Colosseum in Rome has been lit up gold in celebration every time someone on death row anywhere in the world has their sentence commuted or any time any place abolishes the death penalty.
Last weekish Governor Richardson of New Mexico traveled with Archbishop Michael Sheehan to Rome to be on hand for the [...]
Valerie Tarico
36 Biblical Capital Punishment Offenses
via Huffington Post
Cursing Parents
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him. Leviticus 20:9
Working on the Sabbath Whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be [...]
Feb 27th, 2009
On thing that I’ve learned. And thinking about and writing about hte Death Penalty has really helped with this… Is that people who really think about things can see validity even where they don’t expect it. It really is the hardest possible thing to think about how it feels to not have the values that [...]
Feb 7th, 2009
Despite the fellowship disappointments, I’m feeling pretty positive this Friday. I’m working formally for Housingworks, fighting AIDS one book at a time and in a few weeks I’m going to start working part-time for another N.P. in the area that works on the death penalty (anti-). It’s admin stuff mostly, but it feels [...]