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According to the Catholic Church cathechism on the death penalty goes as follows:
Preserving to common good of society requires rendering the aggressor unable to inflict harm. For this reason the traditional teaching of the Church has acknowledged as well-founded the right and duty of legitamate public authority to punish malefactors by means of penalties commensurate with the gravity of the crime, not excluding, in cases of extreme gravity, the death panalty. For analogous reasons those holding authority have the right to repel by armed force aggressors agianst the community in their charge.
That leads me to believe that Bush as Governor in upholding death sentences did nothing against his religious beliefs.
Preserving to common good of society requires rendering the aggressor unable to inflict harm. For this reason the traditional teaching of the Church has acknowledged as well-founded the right and duty of legitamate public authority to punish malefactors by means of penalties commensurate with the gravity of the crime, not excluding, in cases of extreme gravity, the death panalty. For analogous reasons those holding authority have the right to repel by armed force aggressors agianst the community in their charge.
That leads me to believe that Bush as Governor in upholding death sentences did nothing against his religious beliefs.