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Bible Belt state with nation’s highest execution rate considers death penalty flaws

Most Oklahomans believe the devil is real. State Rep. Mike Ritze thinks that’s why they overwhelmingly support capital punishment, despite highly publicized problems with lethal-injection drugs that prompted state officials to put a temporary moratorium on executions in 2015.
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The Winding Path to Abolish the Death Penalty

The near death of Kelly Gissendaner this month reminded much of the country that our nation kills.
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: So Let the State Do It — 4 Moral Findings

We were taking with us messages and information from many who opposed the laws mandating the state legal system to seek the death penalty for those convicted on the heinous crime of murder.
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Guilty until Proven Innocent: The Exonerated comes to Gonzaga

The death penalty drama, "The Exonerated," will return Spokane the week before Thanksgiving. Hosted by the Gonzaga University Department of Theatre and Arts.
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Why capital punishment isn’t permissible

During my freshman year of college while around a group of my peers, I expressed an opinion about capital punishment that apparently wasn’t as common in mainstream Christianity as I’d previously imagined.
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Ask A Mormon: What’s the church’s stance on capital punishment?

My question is: does the LDS church have an official stand on capital punishment? Is there also a general belief system you could speak to on executions from a Mormon point of view?

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BRIEF: Spokane woman plans to walk to end death penalty

Beginning Sept. 3 Spokane resident Victoria Thorpe will lead an 18 and-a-half-day walk across the state to advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.

"Its purpose is to draw attention to the failure of the death penalty system; not only on the factual level, but as a tool designed to preserve our humanity it has only taken us further away," she said in a letter.

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