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Texas Catholics Speak Against the Death Penalty

By Steve Hall

Andrew Rivas, Executive Director of the Texas Catholic Conference writes the column, "The Death Penalty is a Respect Life Issue!" In a 2002 Pew Research-sponsored presentation at the University of Chicago, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was asked if he thought the use of the death penalty would ever lead to the execution of an innocent person. His answer was, "of course it will. I mean, you cannot have any system of human justice that is going to be perfect."Justice Scalia was not speaking in 2002 as a member of the Supreme Court on the legal merits of the death penalty; rather, he was speaking as a Roman Catholic on the question of whether he thought the death penalty was morally acceptable. His reply is contrary to the teaching of Pope John Paul II...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).