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TO BE A PEACE MAKER ~DAVE ROBINSON PAX CHRISTI USA
| Cardinal Martino: Overturned Death Sentence a Victory for Life | | Catholic Online | |
| A U.S. appeals court decision to overturn the death sentence
of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of killing a police officer in 1981, is a victory for human life, said Cardinal Renato Martino,
president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. A panel of judges from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
Philadelphia upheld Abu-Jamal's murder conviction March 27, but also upheld a lower court ruling vacating his death sentence.
In an interview published on the front page of the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, March 28, Cardinal Martino
said: "Justice is not accomplished by punishing with another crime. For this reason, every death sentence not carried
out is a victory for man and for life." |
Just war Principles
WAR CRIMES -RUMSFELD
JAPANESE DISARMAMENT
WEAPONS PROLIFERATION
GENOCIDE
STOP THE MERCHANTS OF DEATH
close Guantanamo
Counter-recruitment
Genocide/Holocaust
School of the Americas
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
STOP NUCLEAR TESTING
Civil Disobediece/Nuclear
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