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Opposition to the death penalty ignores its foregoing justifications, and instead resorts to [[pacifism|pacifist]] arguments. Most opponents of the death penalty are inconsistently [[pro-abortion]]. The [[Roman Catholic Church]] supported the death penalty for most of its existence, and has not changed its doctrine. [[Jesus]] never denounced the death penalty despite clear opportunities to do so.
Opposition to the death penalty ignores its foregoing justifications, and instead resorts to [[pacifism|pacifist]] arguments. Most opponents of the death penalty are inconsistently [[pro-abortion]]. The [[Roman Catholic Church]] supported the death penalty for most of its existence, and has not changed its doctrine. [[Jesus]] never denounced the death penalty despite clear opportunities to do so.
Although support for the death penalty has largely been Christian and conservative-based, with most of the opposition coming from the left, there's at least one case where the death penalty was supported by leftist people, although only if its use is due to "political crimes" rather than the listed crimes above, as Jean Paul Sartre when asked about this bluntly answered with the following: "Yes. In a revolutionary country in which the bourgeoisie has been swept from power, the bourgeois who would foment a riot or a plot would deserve the death penalty…A revolutionary regime must get rid of a certain number of individuals that threaten it and I see no other means for this than death; it is always possible to get out of a prison; the revolutionaries of 1793 probably didn't kill enough people."<ref>Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century, Bernard Henri-Levy. p. 344</ref>
== In the world today ==
== In the world today ==