Where Mercy Meets Justice On the Gallows.

By |2025-10-06T17:42:12+00:00October 9th, 2025|Theology|

When I was a student attending a liberal Jesuit high school, I was very much against the death penalty.  I even wrote letters for Amnesty International (before they had taken their pro-abortion stance) with my friends in Denver cafes at night, while other guys were out partying.  Back in the early 1990s when I was in high school, I also knew of the book Dead Man Walking about an anti-death penalty sister who spent time on death row named Sr. Helen Prejean. Fast forward to the late 1990s where I am studying theology at Boston College, the second most prestigious Catholic University on the East Coast (second only to Georgetown.) [...]