Governments have historically accepted some form of sanctuary, whereby criminals touch holy ground, call base, and mitigate secular punishments, for centuries.
For secular rebels, the punishment was death; clergy were to receive lighter penalties.
Carter never tells us how he squares his notions of God's punishment of secular Jews with the policies of such devout politicians.
The Inquisition, which spread to many parts of France, was usually entrusted to Dominicans; it relied on the active pursuit of suspects, secret testimony, and in case of conviction and obstinacy delivery of the heretic to the "secular arm" for capital punishment.
It prescribes religious and secular duties, along with punishments for their breach.
The perpetrator is liable for trial and punishment by the secular courts of any civilized society.
Murphy traces the rendition of suspected terrorists to third countries, generally ones that practiced unrestrained torture, back to the Catholic Church's policy of turning over convicted heretics to secular armies or governments for punishment.
But those are also the aims of punishment as a species of secular penance, as sketched above.
Bennet has come, he tells Charles, for "a punishment... not a vacation," in secular atonement for crimes so chilling that he at first refuses to name them outright.
The group listed 13 demands, including reinstating "absolute trust and faith in the Almighty Allah" in the nation's Constitution, which is largely secular, and passing a law providing for capital punishment for maligning Allah, Islam and its Prophet Muhammad.
