Websites on Religion: Capital Punishment

A question from the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas.

A collection of articles on the topic from the Catholic tradition.

A collection of articles on the topic in "Religion & Public Life"

A large collection of links on capital punishment, focusing on Catholic resources. Links to statements on the death penalty made in other faith traditions.

DPIC provides a compilation of statements about the death penalty from a broad array of religious denominations. DPIC occasionally highlights the views of those speaking from a faith perspective when the comments relate to a case or controversy involving capital punishment. Finally, it features the results of death penalty polls when broken down by particular faiths.

A collection of categorized links: facts, law, websites pro and con, people on death row, documents, reports, etc. The overall slant of the site is against the death penalty.

This is the text of a full length book by Pope John Paul II, which expresses the official Catholic viewpoint on abortion, euthanasia, and the death penalty.

"People of Faith Against the Death Penalty is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, interfaith organization whose mission is to educate and mobilize faith communities to act to abolish the death penalty in the United States. Founded in 1994 in North Carolina, PFADP focuses its programs on organizing among faith communities in the South."

Addresses Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism.

Approved by the U.S. Bishops in November, 1980.