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Drawing on Old and New Testament resources as well as secular arguments, Gardner C. Hanks shows that the death penalty harms rather than helps any quest for a just, humane society. He demonstrates through research data that the death penalty is an ineffective crime-fighting tool.

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title:Against the Death Penalty : Christian and Secular Arguments against Capital Punishment
author:Hanks, Gardner C.
publisher:Herald Press
isbn10 | asin:0836190750
print isbn13:9780836190755
ebook isbn13:9780585224107
language:English
subjectCapital punishment, Capital punishment--Religious aspects--Christianity.
publication date:1997
lcc:HV8694.H25 1997eb
ddc:364.66
subject:Capital punishment, Capital punishment--Religious aspects--Christianity.
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Against the Death Penalty
Christian and Secular Arguments Against Capital Punishment
Gardner C. Hanks
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hanks, Gardner C., 1947
Against the death penalty : Christian and secular arguments
against capital punishment / Gardner C. Hanks.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8361-9075-0 (alk. paper)
1. Capital punishment. 2. Capital punishmentReligious aspects
Christianity. I. Title.
HV8694.H25 1997
364.66dc21 97-18825
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The paper used in this publication is recycled and meets the minimum re
quirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences
Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
All Bible quotations are used by permission, all rights reserved, and unless
otherwise indicated are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright
1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the
Churches of Christ in the USA.
AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
Copyright 1997 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683
Published simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press,
Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6H7. All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 97-18825
International Standard Book Number: 0-8361-9075-0
Printed in the United States of America
Book and cover design by Paula M. Johnson
07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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In memory
of my mother,
Marion Chapman Hanks
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Contents
Foreword
by Howard Zehr
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Preface
13
Acknowledgments
21
1. Life for Life? Old Testament Perspectives
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The First Murder
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Noah and the Rule of Blood
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Moses the Murderer
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The Law
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The Death Penalty in the Life of the Community
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David the Murderer
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Application of Old Testament Principles to Our Situation
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Conclusion
2. One Without Sin: New Testament Perspectives
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Jesus Stops an Execution
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The Most Famous Execution
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Other New Testament Executions
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The Authorities and the Sword
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The Government as the Beast
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Conclusion
3. Opposition to the Death Penalty to 1700
52
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The Early Church
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