... heartstrings to her brother, Polyneices, avowal to implement a rightful entombment for Polyneices by defying King Creon's decree to persecute Polyneices treason by forbidding his burial. She accosts Creon by expressing, "I do. I deny nothing [in my duty to give my brother a rite of burial]...I dared [to defy your law]...I knew I must die, even without your decree: I am only mortal. And if I must die ... , "Planned Parenthood v. Casey,"" complements Antigone's Pro-Life tenets by rendering, "Our precedents have respected the private realm of family life which the state cannot enter.' At th...

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... immediate community. By the 1830s and 1840s, the anti-death-penalty movement began to have a significant impact. More states began to reduce the number of capital crimes and made laws more flexible. By 1846 in Michigan, treason was the only capital crime. In 1852 Rhode Island eliminated capital punishment for everything except murder committed by a convict already sentenced to life in prison ... and should be the last melancholy resource against those whose existence is become inconsistent with the safety of their fellow citizens." Debates about the constitutional meaning of cruel and un...

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... separation, but also know why we suffer. For sin and grace are bound to each other. We do not even have a knowledge of sin unless we have already experienced the unity of life, which is grace. And conversely, we could not grasp the meaning of grace without having experienced the separation of life, which is sin. In grace something is overcome; grace occurs in spite ... of something; grace occurs in spite of separation and estrangement. Grace is the reunion of life with life, the reconciliation of the self with itself."- Tillich's theology was the subject of King's dissertation. First Am...

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