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A Culture Of Life
ByNoah Millman reflects on the Supreme Court ruling that child rape is not grounds for capital punishment:
It does seem to me that if you start from a premise of such a right to life, then you can only barely justify the death penalty in cases of murder (on the grounds of satisfaction and/or expiation – the consequentialist justifications will never fly), and certainly not in any other cases. If our humanity is inalienable, that really does mean that nothing we do can take it away from us. In which case you cannot say that raping a child makes someone into such a monster as cannot be suffered to live.
This is the Catholic position. But not the theocon one.
