This revised and updated second edition is an overview of capital punishment. It offers an examination of the death penalty, supported by statistics and Supreme

This book traces the doctrinal path the Church has taken to its present position as the world's largest and most outspoken opponent of capital punishment.

"Punishment," writes J. E. McTaggart, " is pain and to inflict pain on any person obviously [requires] justification." But if the need to justify punishment is