Religious Views On Capital Punishment Research Paper

Naveen Benjamin

Mrs. O'Conner

HRT3MI

June 2, 2015

Religious Views on Capital Punishment With over four thousand religions in the world, there are bound to be many differences between each faith, for why would there be so many religions if all the people on Earth believed in the same ideas and beliefs? In recent years, capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, has been a hot topic in religious international debates. Debates are still taking place within religions because of gray areas formed by society's ideas and each religion's sacred scriptures.

Roman Catholicism The use of capital punishment in Canada was completely abolished in 1976 and has become a significant development in the advancement of human rights in the Canadian

Only God has the right to decide if a man may live or die. However, both the Catechism and the Pope support the position that the state has the right to use the death penalty in certain cases. The position follows form two 'rules', the first one stating that nations have the right to just war and that individuals have a right to self-defense. Though the church supports the right of the state to use capital punishment, it does not support use of it in all cases. The church decides when it is appropriate to use by studying the constitution of moral act. The church says that every act must satisfy three basic elements in order to be good. The first one stating that the act itself must be good, the second saying that the intention of the person doing it must not be evil, and finally, the circumstances must be

This debate even goes between governments and religious communities. This is an important topic in the world and it has been for centuries. In the 17th century, people could be put to death for denying the true god or even cursing their parents. Everyone has a side on the death penalty. They are either for it or against it. Usually, the people who oppose capital punishment are religious but there are many non religious people who are against it also. There are many reasons to be for it or against it. The death penalty is an important topic in our daily lives because it is the act of taking another person's life away. For many people this is a very evil act against human life, while other people couldn't care less if the person lived or died. Some would even prefer if the offender was sentenced to