Punishment should be used to restore order and good in society.

Punishment must not impose too great an evil on the wrongdoer.

"Execution is the opposite of baptism into a community. Baptism into a community means `We are all connected, we are all one family and you are part of us.' And execution is removing a person from the human family, step by step, saying, `You are no longer part of us. You are not human, like we are, and so we can terminate you." "

Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ

What are the evils of Capital Punishment?