Victorian Council of Churches
Social Questions Commission
Death Penalty Position

March 2009

The churches and church bodies that make up the Victorian Council of Churches either hold a position that the death penalty should never be applied (such as the Salvation Army, the Uniting Church in Australia, the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne) or that it can only be used in cases of absolute necessity, but that such cases are very rare, if practically non-existent (as in the case of the Anglican Church and Catholic Church). Read on>>

 

The Commission on Social Questions is to help the churches and church members to be instruments of God's love and justice, living in such a way that all people in our communities have the opportunity to fully develop all their capabilities, and to ensure that all structures in society support such endeavours. It will do so with explicit awareness of, and regard to, the Australian Aboriginal and Islander Communities, the multifaith and secular environment.