Death...this was the sentence for those who prey on society, whether its a life of drugs, crime, sexual attack, murder, God set the law and HE knows we are imperfect and kill a few that are innocent to keep our homes safe, follow the law of execution and let God sort em out. He is the only one who can pronounce innocence.
The Death Penalty? What do you think?
by Country Girl 101 Replies latest jw friends
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lesterd
People say that the death penalty is not a deterant, he sure wont do it again, will he? Oh but if he is locked away for life then he wont do it again, my question is why do we have to be punished by paying for his room and board all his life, sounds like society gets the life sentence. It doesnt make a statement to wouldbe criminals that they get to go to college and perfect their trade at our expense, while on vacation from their real jobs of wreeking havoc on society.
Society is beyond healing, criminals have all the rights and the victims have none. A neighbor caught a burglar and called the cops...45 minutes went by no police no call. If he had said he had him a gun point and was going to shot the SOB cops would have been there in a heart beat to protect the perp
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BurnTheShips
Death...this was the sentence for those who prey on society, whether its a life of drugs, crime, sexual attack, murder, God set the law and HE knows we are imperfect and kill a few that are innocent to keep our homes safe, follow the law of execution and let God sort em out. He is the only one who can pronounce innocence.
Phenomenally stupid.
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BurnTheShips
We should think very carefully about applying the death penalty. If we retain it at all, it should only be for the most heinous crimes and the MOST unambiguous, uncontrovertible evidence.
The Mosaic code stipulated the death penalty for a variety of horrible crimes such as murder and rape.
The Hebrews were a poor primitve desert people that did not have the means to protect their society from predators by locking them up.
We are wealthy.
We have the means. We can afford to lock them up. If we did not have the means, then the capital penalty would be a morally justifiable method. But we do have the means.
We don't necessarily need to apply the capital penalty to protect society from predators. That is the main reason for the justice system, to protect the rights of the innocent, not to punish the guilty. We have an imperfect justice system. It will always be imperfect. The death penalty is irrevocable.
The purpose of criminal justice is to prevent (or should be to prevent) the predation of the innocent and the violation of their God given rights to life and liberty.
Both imprisonment and capital punishment accomplish this.
Let God handle punishment in his own way in his own time.
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LtCmd.Lore
Death...this was the sentence for those who prey on society, whether its a life of drugs, crime, sexual attack, murder, God set the law and HE knows we are imperfect and kill a few that are innocent to keep our homes safe, follow the law of execution and let God sort em out. He is the only one who can pronounce innocence.
Picking up sticks on Sunday and murdering your father on Monday are equal crimes in the eyes of God..
Gotta love that divine justice!
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Fadeout
Those who have read my other posts will know I am not a liberal.
I am strongly against the death penalty.
When deciding the matter of 'what to do with this criminal,' society's primary consideration should be what is best for society, not what is best for the criminal, or what the criminal "deserves."
Life rarely gives us what we deserve. A starving child in Africa may complain, rightly, that he/she does not deserve to die at the age of four. But guess what... that's the universe we live in: cold, unfeeling, unreasoning.
Life is not fair. The goal of civilized society is not to try to make life fair, or even 'as fair as possible.' As a society our goal should be to create an environment conducive to the success and growth of our citizens. So when someone becomes a "criminal" and disrupts our efforts to create or maintain such an environment, the decision on how to handle the matter should not be based on emotion or on some ideal of "justice" which is unobtainable anyway (as soon as the crime was committed, justice has been irreversibly breached; as the tired but true argument goes, killing the murderer won't bring the victim back).
Throughout history many cultures have realized this. If a member of a nomadic tribe was a danger to the success of the group, the worst penalty that could be inflicted was exile. In many cases this no doubt meant death for the solitary individual on his own. But society did not have to expend its own resources in carrying out a punishment, and it rid itself of the threat to its success.
In our current society, the last time I checked the figures, it did indeed cost us more to execute a criminal than to imprison him for life. When it comes to dealing with scumwads, I don't want the drain on society to be a penny over what's necessary.
Add to this the fact that having a death penalty policy will inevitably lead to a certain number of innocents being put to death. Exactly how many innocents is it acceptable to sacrifice in our pursuit of vengeance?
Extending the death penalty to crimes other than murder would be yet another step in the wrong direction.
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hamilcarr
Grow up in a religiously active violent culture where the death penalty is enforced and you will feel it is right.
Grow up in a secular culture with lower levels of violence and no executions and it will appear barbaric.
It's amazing to see how prevalent the death culture is in predominantly "theist" countries. Never forget that not only "horrible crimes" such as murder and rape were punishable by death in the Judaic/Islamic law, but also minor infractions like disobeying your parents.
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stillajwexelder
I am totally for capital punishment - yes
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gaiagirl
There are some people who simply cannot or will not be rehabilitated. They are not remorseful for their actions, and given the opportunity, they will repeat them. For these people, the death penalty is not a punishment, but a protection for society.
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buffalosrfree
Is it just to put to death a paeodphile? You bet, fry them, they will always be wanting to molest when set free, so fry them, the more death penalty the better as far as I am concerned. Why have to pay taxes to support these people, if deserving of life, well then take their life, don't penalize society with taking care and supporting them for untold years.