tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8254272216866737058.post9026514990357710362..comments2024-02-14T14:53:03.810-07:00Comments on Καθολικός διάκονος: The Holy See, again, on the death penaltyDeacon Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01385969740195992108noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8254272216866737058.post-87143160728718638572007-02-08T20:17:00.000-07:002007-02-08T20:17:00.000-07:00"Journey Toward Justice" Changed my mind..."Journey Toward Justice" Changed my mind about the Death Penalty. A Book Recommendation: This is the Companion book to John Grisham's The Innocent Man, Journey Toward Justice by Dennis Fritz. Journey Toward Justice is a testimony to the Triumph of the human Spirit and is a Memoir. Dennis Fritz was wrongfully convicted of rape and murder after a swift trail. The only thing that saved him from the Death Penalty was a lone vote from a juror. Dennis Fritz was the other Innocent man mentioned in John Grisham's Book which mainly is about Ronnie Williamson, Dennis Fritz's co-defendant. Both were exonerated after spending 12 years in prison. The real killer was one of the Prosecution's Key Witness. Read about why he went on a special diet of his while in prison, amazing and shocking. Dennis Fritz's Story of unwarranted prosecution and wrongful conviction needs to be heard. Look for his book in book stores or at Amazon.com , Journey Toward Justice by Dennis Fritz, Publisher Seven Locks Press 2006. .<br>Read about how he wrote hundreds of letters and appellate briefs in his own defense and immersed himself in an intense study of law. He was a school teacher and a ordinary man whose wife was brutally murdered in 1975 by a deranged 17 year old neighbor. On May 8th 1987, Five years after Debbie Sue Carter's rape and murder he was home with his young daughter and put under arrest, handcuffed and on his way to jail on charges of rape and murder. After 10 years in prison he discovered The Innocence Project, a non-profit legal organization. With the aid of Barry Scheck and DNA evidence Dennis Fritz was exonerated on April 15,1999 Since then, it has been a long hard road filled with twist and turns and now on his Journey Toward Justice. He never blamed the Lord and solely relied on his faith in God to make it through. He waited for God's time and never gave up.Barbara's Journey Toward Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09888004395206383450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8254272216866737058.post-1150200959760850952008-07-26T10:51:00.000-06:002008-07-26T10:51:00.000-06:00Is it possible that JPII and BXVI are in error as ...Is it possible that JPII and BXVI are in error as regards their opposition to the death penalty as an ordinary means of punishment? Since it is not an infallible teaching, it is theoretically possible. However, they are not. <br><br>Without engaging the issue beyond what is appropriate for the comments section of a blog, <br>I would simply point out in response to Mr. Sharp's very lengthy comment that matters of social science are never primarily what magisterial teaching is based on. It is based on an ever deeper discernment and articulation of scripture and tradition. Hence, opposition to the death penalty is derived primarily from theological premises. To wit: every human being is created in the image of God. This <i>imago dei</i> cannot be eradicated by sin, even a sin as aggregious as murdering another human being. Human dignity derives from man's divine likeness. Capital punishment, when used as an ordinary means of criminal punishment when other means are available to safeguard society, is a violation of human dignity, both that of the one executed and those complicit in the execution.<br><br>Besides, even in the revised <i>Catechism</i>, there is no absolute prohibition against the death penalty, it is availale when no other means can be employed to safeguard society, but only then, which renders its use practically non-existent.Dcn Scott Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09994604395739905637noreply@blogger.com