Death Penalty: Religious Leaders Dialogue (Houston, TX; 2011, #2/7): Rev. Mike Cole, PCUSA

Reverend Cole, PCUSA, speaking about the immorality of the death penalty. He serves as General Presbyter for New Covenant Presbetery in the Synod of the Sun, which affiliates with the General Assembly, PCUSA (Presbyterian Church, USA) .

Following the preamble by Sister Helen Prejean, this is the second of seven dispositions, or expository statements about the morality of capital punishment. A panel of pre-eminent spiritual thinkers shared their thoughts about the death penalty, in the city that is the seat of the county many think of as the execution capitol of the western world. The event, which took place January 18, 2001, in Zilkha Hall at Hobby Center, Houston, Texas, was sponsored by many organizations, most of which will be identified in comments.

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• Death Penalty
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• social justice
• religion
• morality