Question — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Question XIII: Whether princes can grant license to kill outlaws
On this I find only this in St. Bonaventure, serm. 6. on the Decalogue: that ministers of justice can kill the impious, provided it be done from zeal for justice, not from appetite for vengeance.
An possint Principes dare licentiam occidendi bannitos.
De hoc solum id invenio in S. Bonaventura, serm. 6. in Decalogum, ministros iustitiae posse impios necare, dummodo id fiat zelo iustitiae, non appetitu vindictae.
But they ask: Whether they can then be treacherously killed. Decius affirms, cap. Quae in Ecclesiarum, de constitut. num. 14; Bossius in pract. under the title of the banished.
Quaerunt autem: An possint tunc insidiose occidi. Affirmant Decius cap. Quae in Ecclesiarum, de constitut. num. 14. Bossius in pract. titulo bannitis.
Mantua denies it, consil. 100; so too Angelus, Lex, final, Cod. de delator; Alexander in the postilla on Bartolus on the same final Lex.
Negant vero Mantua consil. 100. Angel. Lex, finali Cod. de delator. Alexander in postilla ad Bartol. ad eandem Leg. finali.
Whatever may be the case concerning these, in whom this second opinion seems to be to be held for the soul's salvation of that wretched man; yet if anyone had given his faith to a banished man that he would not harm him, and then killed him, he would deserve the extreme punishment, as Julius Clarus asserts, L. 5. sentent. §. Homicidium, num. 61, and Fagundez, Book 5, cap. 16, num. 12.
Quidquid vero sit de his, in quibus videtur haec secunda opinio tenenda ob animae salutem miseri illius; si tamen aliquis dedisset fidem bannito eum non offendendi, atque eum occideret, dignus esset supplicio extremo, ut asserunt Iulius Clarius L. 5. sentent. §. Homicidium, num. 61. et Fagundez Libro 5. cap. 16. num. 12.