Criminal Justice
The death penalty, policing, incarceration, and torture, weighed against religious teachings on mercy and the Constitution's limits on punishment.
4 questions
- The Death Penalty in Religious and Constitutional TeachingReligious traditions are divided, but most major traditions — Jewish practice, contemporary Catholic teaching, mainline Protestantism, Buddhism, much of…
- Policing and Use of ForceReligious traditions affirm both the legitimacy of public order and the obligation to limit the violence used to maintain it.
- Incarceration and RehabilitationReligious traditions across the world insist on the dignity of the incarcerated and the possibility of change — Jesus identified himself with prisoners…
- Enhanced Interrogation and Guantanamo DetentionThe consensus among religious traditions on torture is unusually complete — Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu teachings converge on…