Exile and Embrace: Contemporary Religious Discourse on the Death Penalty

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Contemporary Religious Discourse on the Death Penalty Exile & Embrace ANTHONY SANTORO ) ) Northeastern University Press An imprint of University Press of New England www.upne.com© 2013 Anthony Santoro All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Eric M. Brooks Typeset in Arnhem and Egyptian Slate by A. W. Bennett, Inc. Hardcover isbn: 978-1-55553-816-3 Paperback isbn: 978-1-55553-817-0 Ebook isbn: 978-1-55553-818-7 University Press of New England is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data are available upon request. 5 4 3 2 1 Except where otherwise noted, all biblical citations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright© 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. A version of chapter 2 originally appeared as “Between Moral Certainty and Morally Certain: The Religious Debate over the Death Penalty in the United States,” in Volker Depkat and Jürgen Martschukat, eds. Religion and Politics in Europe and the United States: Transnational Historical Approaches. © 2013 by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Reprinted with permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press. ( For my family ) I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind—and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement. ( william faulkner, As I Lay Dying ...