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NEWS STORY: Ruling could boost religion defense in drug cases
c. 1996 Religion News Service
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS)-An unusual federal appeals court ruling in a drug smuggling case allows Rastafarians to argue that they should legally be able to use marijuana for religious reasons.
The ruling from the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Fra...
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NEWS FEATURE: Death penalty divides those in pulpit and pews
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CHICAGO (RNS)-In the 30 years since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, a bitterly emotional debate has preceded each of the 328 executions that have occurred in prisons around the country.
The issue: Is killing a morally defensible p...
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Two families, a dark night, a prison execution
c. 1996 Religion News Service
ANGOLA, La. (RNS)-The Harveys arrived first last Thursday, having driven up the 120 miles from Mandeville, La., in their blue pickup. They pulled off the highway where it ended at the prison gates. Nearby, a dozen guards on beefed-up execution duty stom...
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TOP STORY: JIM BAKKER: Televangelist takes to the pulpit in wake of conviction
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS (RNS)-Former televangelist Jim Bakker, bathed in a standing ovation from a nearly full church Sunday (Feb. 25), preached a new gospel of humility he said he learned in prison.
But Bakker, convicted in 1989 for bilking 116,000 followers out...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND POPULAR CULTURE: `Too much pain here,’ says author of death penalty bo
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-As a child in the early 1950s, Helen Prejean drifted off to sleep bathed in the security of a middle-class Catholic home, lulled by the sound of her parents murmuring the rosary."Catholicism,"she said,"was in our DNA." As a nun 30 years later, he...
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COMMENTARY: The perp and the prosecutor were one and the same
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister who has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
UNDATED _ The recent fall and ultimate demise of Nicholas Bissell Jr. bear a terrible...
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