Saturday, April 16, 2005

US lethal injection scandal challenges Christians

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_050415death.shtml

[ekklesia] April 15, 2005--Christians and human rights activists opposed to the death penalty are vowing to continue the struggle against what they see as a degrading and inhuman policy in the light of fresh research published in the international medical journal The Lancet. This shows that people executed by lethal injection in the United States may have suffered terrible pain because they were not properly anaesthetised.

Is any form of capital punishment really "humane"? Do those countries and states that practice capital punishment care? Is it just another part of the "culture of death" that spans our entire planet?

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