Life for life? : Old Testament perspectives -- One without sin : New Testament perspectives -- Opposition to the death penalty to 1700 -- Modern opposition to the death penalty -- Deterrence? : social and psychological factors say no -- Deterrence? : statistics say no -- The death penalty and repeat offenders -- What about the victims? -- The death penalty and race -- The death penalty and the mentally retarded -- Capital punishment for people with no capital -- The innocent have been executed -- The cost of death -- The effects on society -- Cruel and unusual punishment -- What do we want?
