Capital Punishment St. Paul's

Against Capital Punishment, OUP, 2019

The Introduction to Against Capital Punishment (Oxford, 2019) by Benjamin S. Yost. Formatting is janky, sorry!

Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 2001

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This is a paper about capital punishment. It seeks to argue that Capital Punishment is morally wrong. The paper takes its position arguing against the traditional supporting views about capital punishment.

British Journal of Criminology, 2006

The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), 1983

American Catholic Studies, 2014

Justice That Transforms: Volume Two, 2018

I was invited to dialogue with Dr. Richard Land of (later) “The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission” of the Southern Baptist Convention. The dialogue was organized by the Presbyterian Church in Alaska because debate was heating up in a state with no death penalty on the books. The dialogue took place March 22, 1997 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It was teleconferenced throughout Alaska including into the Juneau legislature, and also translated simultaneously for the deaf. Questions were posed from the university audience and from the teleconferencing sites. There was a professionally produced video of the exchange made available to churches in Alaska. Parts I and II permitted a statement of my opposition to capital punishment. Part III dealt with specific biblical texts used erroneously, I argued, in defence of capital punishment.

This documentary was conceived as the first in a series concerning the death penalty, a topic repeatedly revisited in both fictional and documentary works. Its producers believe that if anything distinguishes it from other approaches, it is, above all, its markedly academic nature. The initiative leading to its production emerged dur - ing the first meetings of the International Aca - demic Network against the Death Penalty [ Red Académica internacional Contra la Pena Capital ] (RECAP) , an organization in which 25 research institutes participate from countries across the world, the purpose of which is to contribute to understanding and overcoming the social barriers that prevent the abolition of the death penalty. The majority of interviews that form the basis of the documentary were, in fact, arranged during the International Congress , at which the network was launched, on December, 2009, at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales , in Madrid (Spain). This event managed to gather together a representative selection of international experts in the field of the death penalty