So common was the practice of compensation that the word• Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops, 1988, Resolution 33, paragraph 3 | Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights |
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Assuming that the guilty party's identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor | The Death Penalty Information Center |