In 2004, Chuck Colson, the late Christian thinker, founder of the
ministry for the incarcerated Prison Fellowship and longtime opponent of the
death penalty reversed his position. Colson wrote that despite his grave
reservations about the way in which capital punishment is administered in the
U.S. and his doubts about whether it actually served as a deterrent, his views
on justice and mercy ultimately led him to change his mind.
"While we take no pleasure in defining the contours of this difficult
ethical issue, the Christian community nevertheless is called upon to articulate
standards of biblical justice, even when this may be unpopular," he wrote.
"Capital justice, I have come to believe, is part of that non-negotiable
standard. A moral obligation requires civil government to punish crime,
and consequently, to enforce capital punishment, albeit under highly restricted
conditions."
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