Mainly among clergymen is the capital-punishment issue argued on moral-religious grounds. The Roman Catholic Church defends society’s right to take a criminal’s life as an act of collective ...
"Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment," study co-author Anna Dolganov, a papyrus expert at the Austrian Academy of ...
While the vast majority of U.S. Catholics support capital punishment, Pope John Paul II ... 1995 after four years of consultations with the world's Roman Catholic bishops, John Paul II wrote ...