On The Main Blog  Creative Minority Reader  Abp. Chaput: "End
the Death Penalty."  Archbishop Chaput urges America to end the
death penalty.  Let’s end the death penalty, now   Continue
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said...  From Cardinal Avery Dulles's reply to invited responses
to his 2001 article on capital punishment:  "Mr. Riga, echoing
the very language of John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae and the
Catechism, says that improvements in the penal system make it
possible for society to defend itself without executing
offenders except in very rare cases. I do not personally follow
this argument because it is subject to two objections that I
have not been able to answer.  "The first objection is that the
proposal adverts to only one of the four ends of punishment,
passing over the other three (retribution, deterrence, and
rehabilitation) in silence. Why is only one of the four purposes
discussed in connection with the death penalty? Here lurks an
ambiguity that, as Prof. McIne