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Justice These Last Days News - April 12, 2018
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In Defense of the Death Penalty...

“My child and My children, children, I wish that you make it known to your countrymen in the United States, and Canada, and all the nations of the world, that We cannot tolerate the murders of the unborn. This is a sacrilege of the most foulest manner in the eyes of the Eternal Father, and shall be punishable by death." - Our Lady of the Roses, May 17, 1986

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LiturgyGuy.com reported on April 11, 2018:

by Brian Williams

 

Pope Benedict XVI
on capital punishment

"While the Church exhorts civil authorities . . . to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible . . . to have recourse to capital punishment."

The following post is the latest from frequent contributor Fr. Donald L. Kloster, a priest of the Diocese of Bridgeport. Fr. Kloster has recently been assigned to St. Mary’s in Norwalk, Connecticut as parochial vicar. He is a graduate of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary Philadelphia, having completed his Master’s Thesis in Moral Theology. A native of Texas and a graduate of the University of Texas (Austin), Fr. Kloster also spent two years as a student (and then novice) at the 7th century Benedictine Abbey of Disentis, Switzerland.

My Master’s Thesis on the Death Penalty was written some 24 years ago. I still remember doing a Nexus Search back in the days before widespread use of the internet. Something very interesting happened. I learned that before the year 1965 almost no one wrote an article opposed to the death penalty and after 1965 almost no one wrote an article advocating for the death penalty. A seismic shift in mores had occurred to be sure.

All of the classic philosophers were of one mind where the death penalty was concerned. They reasoned that the state had the power to assign a commensurate penalty to high crimes of a serious nature up to and including the death penalty. They even went so far as to say that if the ultimate penalty of a death sentence was not a possibility, the very rights protecting human life would be cheapened and then lost.

 

Pope Pius XII
on the Church's teaching regarding  punishment of criminals

"It remains to say a word about the ultimate meaning of punishment. Most modern theories of penal law explain punishment and justify it in the last analysis as a protective measure, that is, a defense of the community against criminal undertakings; and, at the same time, as an effort to lead the culprit back to observance of the law. In these theories, punishment may indeed include sanctions in the form of a reduction of certain advantages guaranteed by the law, in order to teach the culprit to live honestly; but these theories fail to consider expiation of the crime committed ... as the most important function of punishment." - Discourse of October 3, 1953

"Up to a certain point, it may be true that imprisonment and isolation, when properly applied, constitute the penalty most likely to effect a return of the wrongdoer to right order and life in the community. But it does not follow from this that imprisonment is the only just and effective punishment. Our remarks on international penal law on October 3, 1953, referring to the theory of retribution apply here. Many jurists, thought not all, reject the concept of vindictive punishment, even when it is to be accompanied by medicinal penalties. In our remarks, we declared that it would be incorrect to reject completely, and as a matter of principle, the function of vindictive punishment. While man is on earth, such punishment both can and should help towards his eternal salvation, provided he himself raises no obstacle to its salutary efficacy. The effectiveness of vindictive penalties is in no way opposed to the function of punishment, which is the re-establishment and restoration of the order of justice which has been disrupted, a function which we have already indicated as essential to all punishment." - Discourse of December 5, 1954

Perhaps my favorite quote was Pope Pius XII, who in 1955 addressed a group of Italian jurists. He told them that the death penalty was medicinal. Then too, we have the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologica:

Therefore if a man be dangerous and infectious to the community, on account of some sin, it is praiseworthy and advantageous that he be killed in order to safeguard the common good.

St. Augustine of Hippo, perhaps the second of the greatest pillars of Catholic theology beside St. Thomas Aquinas, insisted that a properly ordered state neededthe death penalty. He often advocated for clemency among some of those convicted of serious crimes, but he would have never advocated to prohibit the death penalty as a legitimate possibility in a civilized society.

Few today want to talk about the yearly murder rate in any United States city because it is far more exponentially damaging to arguments against the use of the death penalty. I would argue that the increase in mass murders we are witnessing has everything to do with a depression/suppression of moral objectivity. No society can put a law enforcement officer on every corner. Men need solid morals by which they are able govern themselves. When 80% of this country went to church on a given Sunday, they were instructed by their pastors and preachers. More and more our society tries to imagine we need less of God as well as more of an assault on the idea of objective morality. We have largely become a society of self serving mini-gods who want only to bow down to individualized preferences.

For example, when we put a murderer in jail for life without the possibility of parole how does that prevent him from murdering again on the inside of the prison where he has nothing to lose? Then too, with parole leniency, criminals sentenced to life without the possibility of parole still get released from jail at times. The recidivism of convicted murderers is too high to ignore. In addition, why should society pay the tab for a convicted multiple murderer? Why should society condone that behavior by not proportionately punishing them with the death penalty? Even Jesus was an innocent party who consented to the death penalty.

There is no absolute justice here and we cannot eliminate the death penalty in order to ensure the process will be flawless (i.e. the death penalty for someone later exonerated). The dead individuals the convicted murderer killed are gone and the multiple murderer is free to live on. It would seem, to some, that murderers have more rights than their victims. Someone contemplating murder needs to fear a commensurate punishment.

I worked full time in hospitals for 8 years. When someone thinks they are about to die a natural death, they lean toward repentance; much more so someone who knows he is about to face the death penalty. A man who thinks he has more time on earth is not nearly as likely to make his peace with anyone.

The Founding Fathers of this country were most astute in asserting that a Republic was impossible without a belief in, and a reverence for, God. We are slipping back into barbarism except that even the previous barbarians of old had their gods. Our modern severe barbarism is on the precipice of swallowing whole any decency left amongst us.

There is no justification in blaming the criminal justice system. The society has pulled the teeth out of any meaningful enforcement of the common good. Authentic love has never had a component of indulgence to the point of reckless license. Men can and do forfeit their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. On the other side—the side of true justice—must be included an advocacy for a return to the previously held moral norms supporting civil tranquility that had been present in every age.

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Links...

A Christian response to death penalty issues, January 18, 2007
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/creech/070118

Death penalty opponents wrong again, WorldNetDaily, January 17, 2007
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53798

The purpose of punishment, St. Joseph Foundation
http://www.st-joseph-foundation.org/newsletter/lead.php?document=2003/21-4

A conservative case for the death penalty, Newsmax, March 18, 2005
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/3/17/143817.shtml

Opposition to the death penalty, Dr. Ralph McInerny
http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Dossier/9-10-98/editorial.html

A call for reckoning: Religion and death penalty, comments by Justice Antonin Scalia
http://pewforum.org/deathpenalty/resources/transcript3.php3

Justice Scalia questions Catholic platform against the death penalty, BeliefNet, February 5, 2002
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/99/story_9960_1.html

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