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September 2015

September 19, 2015

You can help save a life today

Yesterday the state of Georgia issued an execution warrant for Kelly Renee Gissendaner. In 10...

September 17, 2015

How To Completely Discredit the Claim that the Five Non-Negotiables are Non-Negotiable

I think it is actually true that the the "Five Non-Negotiables" (abortion, euthanasia, gay "marriage",...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

Working Hard to Fight for the Culture of Death Against the Church

Anti-abortion-but-not-prolife Nebraska conservatives labor with might and main to defeat the repeal of the death...

July 2015

July 21, 2015

The Innocence Project Demonstrates Why the Death Penalty Needs to Die

It is amazing how many wrongful convictions there are out there in our prison population...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! to the Great State of Nebraska…

...for outlawing the death penalty and then overriding the veto of the anti-abortion-but-not-prolife Catholic governor...

April 2015

April 20, 2015

Luckily, this kind of police corruption has never ever happened…

...with capital crimes, resulting in innocent people going to death row. Oh, wait! Commitment to...

April 14, 2015

The Holy See Reaffirms its Opposition to the Death Penalty

Holy Church is speaking. Let us listen not merely when it accessorizes our ideology, but...

April 11, 2015

Russell Saltzman on the Lust for Vengeance

in his essay "I Wanted That Kid Dead": I don’t ever remember such personal outrage...

April 07, 2015

Biblemetrics vs. the Gospel

Tom Kreitzberg writes about the strangely Protestant sola scriptura approach even many Catholics take to...

March 2015

March 20, 2015

Christopher Tollefson argues that the death penalty is indefensible

...and indeed intrinsically wrong. Before jerking the knee, hear him out.

March 18, 2015

A reader argues with a Bible Only Christian about the Death Penalty

He writes: I am having a little bit of a comment debate with an acquaintance...

March 16, 2015

The FCC, net neutrality, prudential judgment, the death penalty, and Luke 16:10-12

Permit me some wide-ranging musings, beginning with the relatively (in the cosmic scheme of salvation)...

March 11, 2015

Only one demographic rejects the Church’s teaching about the death penalty

...but it's totally not about race or anything and if you notice that it is...

March 10, 2015

St. Augustine Once Again Shows He was Not a Real American Catholic

Not only did he reject lying for a good cause, he also was not nearly...

March 07, 2015

Death Penalty Red Herring

"The death penalty is not intrinsically immoral like abortion, therefore the state has no business...

March 06, 2015

Some Remarks on Pro Death Penalty Arguments

..are the subject of today's ruminations over at the Register.

March 05, 2015

End the Death Penalty

Excellent! Four Catholic journals--the National Catholic Register, the National Catholic Reporter, America, and Our Sunday...

March 02, 2015

End Human Sacrifice

Here's a petition to stop one pointless exercise in vengeful bloodlust scheduled for this evening....

December 2014

December 18, 2014

The Death Penalty as Assisted Suicide

We are told that the death penalty (which we celebrate by conducting in total secrecy)...

December 03, 2014

The Tragedy of Culture of Death Conservatism

...that is, the kind of conservatism Rick Perry represents, is that eagerness to butcher a...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Abolish…

...the death penalty.

July 2014

July 24, 2014

Abolish the Damn Death Penalty

Arizona act of human sacrifice to pagan god of vengeance takes two hours to kill...

July 19, 2014

CA Judge declares death penalty unconstitutional

Another step toward the abolition of the death penalty, which is also a prolife issue...

May 2014

May 23, 2014

Don’t worry. There are tiny hamsters eating tiny burritos at the end

Oh, and some of the language is not safe for work:

May 21, 2014

Poor Ramesh Ponnuru

He made the mistake of suggesting to conservative enthusiasts for the culture of death that...

May 02, 2014

Well done, Ramesh Ponnuru!

This is Why We Shouldn't be Executioners Always happy to hear another consistent pro-life voice...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Barbaric Execution Fails to Kill Man…

in a neat, clean and tidy way though it does eventually kill him. Nobody cares...

April 30, 2014

Abolish the Death Penalty

Listen to the bishops and the past three popes. It's time the US stopped competing...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

Tomorrow, We Are Going to Vengefully Slaughter…

...this man. Because our barbaric legal system, on par with such enlightened societies as Saudi...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Oklahoma Pharmacy Won’t Provide Drugs for Execution

Good for them. The job of medicine is to heal, not kill. Part of the...

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