However, he allowed criminals to be mutilated for their crimes. During the middle ages, capital punishment was accompanied by torture. Most barons had a drowning pit as well as gallows and they ...

Capital punishment is vengeance rather than retribution and, as such, is a morally dubious concept The anticipatory suffering of the criminal, who may be kept on death row for many years ...

While the vast majority of U.S. Catholics support capital punishment, Pope John Paul II ... "in cases of absolute necessity, in other words, when it would not be possible otherwise to defend ...