For For readers looking for a brief Christian case against the death penalty; not a survey of all positions.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
2 of 5worth a look
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
His first sustained argument against the death penalty, a short pamphlet from 1961.
How it proceeds
Philosophic3 of 5
Scriptural4 of 5
Experiential0 of 5
Sociological3 of 5
Historical2 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A pamphlet by John Howard Yoder published by Faith and Life Press in 1961, setting out a Christian case against capital punishment. It was his first sustained writing on the death penalty, a subject he returned to in later essays and in The Death Penalty Debate (1991, with H. Wayne House). His writings on the subject were collected in The End of Sacrifice (2011).
