Death Penalty

Nashville 2001 Delegate Actions

"In view of our Christian responsibility to value all human life we are compelled to set forth our opposition to all capital punishment..." Nashville Death Penalty Resolution

Letter from Jim Schrag to President Bush, May 2003
Response from White House, July 8, 2003 (69k PDF)

Congregational Follow-Up Resources

PDF version (97k PDF) or Read the HTML Version.

Documents From Others

Understanding Capital Punishment: A Guide Through the Death Penalty Debate, a 150-page spiral bound user-friendly resource for those who speak, write, teach, organize or want to learn about the death penalty. (March 2003). Price: 1-4: $15.00 per copy, 5 or more: $10.00 - shipping included. From the Death Penalty Information Center,1320 18th St NW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20036; 202-293-6970 E-mail: , http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org

Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Sentencing Children to Death, a 32-page free report (downloadable from the Internet), from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, 920 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20003; 202-543-9577; E-mail: ; Website: http://www.ncadp.org

Death Penalty Resources

Litanies		View All Litanies
Title	Date	Author
A Vigil of Prayer & Worship for a Moratorium on Capital Punishment	5/1/2001
A sample prayer and worship service for a Moratorium on Capital Punishment.
Prayers		View All Prayers
Title	Date	Author
A Prayer to Abolish the Death Penalty		by Helen Prejean
Helen Prejean, long time anti-death penalty activist wrote this prayer.
Resource Lists		View All Resource Lists
Title	Date	Author
Links to Organizations Working to End the Death Penalty
List of Organizations Working to End the Death Penalty with web links
Resources to Abolish the Death Penalty
A list of agencies that provide resources on Death Penalty Abolition.
Statements		View All Statements
Title	Date	Author
Death Penalty letter from Jim Schrag to President Bush	5/22/2003	by Jim Schrag
Letter from Jim Schrag to President Bush: "We are opposed to all capital punishment. We appeal to you to abolish the federal death penalty and to encourage states to abolish their punishments of death."
Death Penalty Resolution, Follow-up	1/24/2003	by Davis and Landis
Congregational Follow-up Resources for Nashville 2001 Death Penalty Resolution
Death Penalty Resolution, Follow-up (PDF)	1/24/2003	by Davis and Landis
Nashville 2001 Delegate Actions Congregational Follow-Up Resources for Death Penalty Resolution (97K .PDF)
A Resolution: The Death Penalty	7/7/2001	by MC USA
In view of our Christian responsibility to value all human life we are compelled to set forth our opposition to all capital punishment.
Writings		View All Writings
Title	Date	Author
Oz and the death penalty	6/21/2005	by Tom Beutel
We in North America, like the Munchkins of Oz, tend to celebrate the death of an “evil” person, but that is not what God commands or Jesus models.