EDITORIAL

The Death Penalty

Letters

Opposition to the Death Penalty

Brief Note on the Revision of Passages in the Catechism of
the Catholic Church Having to do with the Death Penalty...............................................Christoph Cardinal Schönborn O.P

Capital Punishment:
A Work in Progress or Progress Un-Working?.......................................................................................Msgr. William Smith

Showdown in Texas: The Pope vs. The Culture of Death................................................................................Charles E. Rice

Thomas Aquinas on Homicidal Self-Defense........................................................................................Thomas A. Cavanaugh

Capital Punishment and the Just Society.........................................................................................Fr. Thomas Williams, L.C

DOCUMENTATION

The Catechism on Punishment

COLUMNS

The Teaching of The Gospel of Life............................................................................................................Gerard V. Bradley

Crime and Punishment....................................................................................................................................James Hitchcock

Rethinking Capital Punishment..........................................................................................................................Janet E. Smith

FICTION

A Life Sentence.................................................................................................................................................Ralph McInerny

REVIEW

Gospel of Life or One World Nonsense?...................................................................................................................Ellen Rice

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