Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Death Penalty

Thesis advisor: Arthur Madigan === Catholic moral philosophers and theologians for centuries used Thomas Aquinas's defense of the death penalty as a point of reference in defending the state's right to execute. Recent Church documents such as Evangelium Vitae, however, seem to take a diffe...

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Main Author: Gardner, Elinor
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Boston College 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2345/712