The biblical truth about America's death penalty / Dale S. Recinella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Recinella, Dale S., 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital punishment--Biblical teaching.

Capital punishment.

Capital punishment--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (463 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Northeastern University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A hard look at Hebrew and Christian scriptures as they relate to today's death penalty practices.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction ; 1 | Trends in the American Death Penalty; 2 | Torah and Talmud; 3 | A Point of Beginning: Beyond Platitudes; Part 1 | What Does Biblical Truth Tell Us About Who Is Deserving of Death and the Authority to Kill?; 4 | The Mosaic Law: From Moses to Jesus; from Cain to Lamech; 5 | Life for Life and the Rule of Blood: Mandate or Law of Limitation?; 6 | Who Deserves Death? Torah, the American Colonies, and Modern America

7 | A Christian Conundrum under Mosaic Law: Atonement by Sacrafice versus Reconciliation by Grace8 | Authority to Kill: The Sanhedrin; 9 | Authority to Kill: Extra-Biblical Courts and Romans 13; 10 | Authority to Kill: Biblical Deterrence; 11 | Summary of Part One; Part 2 | What Does Biblical Truth Tell Us About the Required Procedures and the Plight of the Families of the Victims?; 12 | An Innocent Person You Shall Not Slay: Witness Permitted; 13 | An Innocent Person You Shall Not Slay: Evidence Permitted; 14 | An Innocent Person You Shall Not Slay: Innocence versus Closure

15 | Let It Be Done to Them as They Sought to Do to Him: False Testimony and Prosecutorial Misconduct16 | Levels of Culpability and Diminished Capacity: Age, Mental Illness, and Mental Retardation; 17 | God Is Blind to Wealth: No Privilage for Rich over Poor; 18 | God Is Blind to Color: All Victims Are of Equal Value; All Offenders Are to Be Treated Equally; 19 | The Impartiality in the Decision Makers: The Politics of Death; 20 | For Whom Is It a Detriment? The American Death Penalty and Families of the Victims; 21 | Summary of Part Two

22 | A Faith Alternative: Abolition or Moratorium of the American Death Penalty by People of Biblical Faith Appendix A | Short Form of an Abolition Resolution for People of Biblical Faith; Appendix B | Short Form of a Moratorium Resolutionfor People of Biblical Faith; Appendix C | 2000 Southern Baptist Convention Resolution on Capital Punishment Passed in Orlando, Florida in June, 2000; Abbreviations and Notes on Citations; Notes; Bibliography; Cases Cited; Permissions; Index of Scriptures Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-55553-862-2