Download or read book Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition written by Eugene Christian Brugger and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the Catholic Church's position on the death penalty? How and why has it changed through the ages? Tracing the history of this thorny moral issue, Brugger offers a detailed exegesis of the Church's account of its morality as formulated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.