Death Penalty Symposium Examines Religion and the Death Penalty

The New York Central Synagogue's day-long symposium, "The Death Penalty, Religion, and the Law: Is Our Legal System's Implementation of Capital Punishment Consistent with Judaism or Christianity?", is now available on the Web. The resource contains expert discussion about religious texts and the death penalty, and it highlights related topics such as innocence, executing those with mental retardation or mental illness, the juvenile death penalty, and death penalty moratoriums.

Read the presentations: http://camlaw.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/TABAK.doc