Penalty, Punishment & Death
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Earlier this year a prison inmate confessed to killing a female correctional officer inside the chapel of a prison in the state of Washington. At the time of the killing, the inmate, Byron Scherf, was serving a life sentence as a “three-strikes” offender for prior rape convictions. In his videotaped confession, Scherf told detectives that he didn’t like the way that Officer… Read More
As Catholics, we know from what we’ve been taught that it was necessary for our Lord to die on the cross in order to redeem us from our sins and to open the gates of Heaven. Prior to His death, because of the sins of Adam and Eve, Heaven was “off limits” to everyone. In the New Testament, the only people who were identified on Calvary where our Lord was crucified were the soldiers,…