Refusing to Make a Monster out of God: Shane Claiborne on the Death Penalty - Pennsylvanians Against the Death Penalty

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Refusing to Make a Monster out of God: Shane Claiborne on the Death Penalty

April 19, 2017

April 19, 2017 Activists campaigning to abolish the death penalty recently confronted a new and urgent occasion for their efforts, when the state of Arkansas announced it would execute eight death-row inmates in a ten-day period because its store of chemicals for lethal injection was about to expire.…

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