Religion and Politics

Who Would Jesus Execute?

At Soujourners, Jim Wallis interviews Richard Viguerie, who has been called “the funding father of the conservative movement,” on the issue of the death penalty and prison reform. Viguerie, a devout Catholic, is morally opposed to the death penalty. He finds fault in both the Democratic and Republican stances on the “life issue”: “My position is you shouldn’t be killing anybody before or after they’re born. There are very few people on the Left or the Right who take that position.”

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