"Capital Punishment: The Question of Justification"
Magazine article
By: David A. Hoekema
Date: March 28, 1979
Source: Hoekema, David A. "Capital Punishment: The Question of Justification," Christian Century, March 28, 1979, 338. Available online at http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showa... (accessed March 1, 2003).
About the Author: David Andrew Hoekema (1950–) was born in Peterson, New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree from Calvin College in 1972 and a doctorate from Princeton University in 1981. In addition to teaching philosophy at various colleges Hoekema has written several books on Christianity.
Introduction
The issue of capital punishment during the 1970s received a great deal of discussion in the religious as well as the legal arenas. On June 29 1972, the United States Supreme...
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