[don-o]

I'll tell you what would be even better: That he be convicted in his heart of the great evil he has done; that he plead guilty and beg for mercy; and that he spend the rest of his life in a ten foot cell with a bed, blanket and bucket. And a copy of the Bible.

God does not rejoice in the death of a sinner. Neither will I.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I’m inclined to agree with you, my don-o. But I keep thinking of Samuel Johnson’s saying that nothing focuses a man’s mind better than the knowledge that he will be executed in a fortnight.

[sitetest]

Dear don-o,

To me, the primary use of the death penalty is to execute the most dangerous persons in society, to prevent them from killing/harming others in the future.

The most dangerous persons in a society are those who have no internal restraint preventing them from committing gross and heinous crimes, up to and including murder. Persons such as repeat serial and mass murderers are those most likely to have the least internal restraint from killing again.

Abortionists fit this definition to a T.

If our laws were sensible, all repeat abortionists would be mandatorily executed upon conviction for the heinous crime of abortion. I don't rejoice in the necessary death of any sinner, but it is necessary to protect the wider society from the moral enormities that are abortionists.

sitetest