[Gay State Conservative]

Strictly speaking one can,from an ethical/moral standpoint,make an argument against the death penalty.But something tells me that when you examine his positions on various subjects of significance his opposition to the death penalty would be far stronger than his opposition to,say,abortion...or pervert "marriage".

IOW I'm strongly inclined to believe that his opposition is politically based rather than based on morality.

If my hunch is correct it would be in keeping with his obvious Marxist sympathies.

And for the record...I'm a strong supporter of the DP.

[Flying Circus]

I am ambivalent on the death penalty. I completely accept that God has granted the right to execute criminals in order that government fulfills its responsibility to protect their citizens. Through most of history there was no practical way to keep violent criminals imprisoned for the rest of their lives, so the death penalty was a necessity for protecting the people.

Today we have resources and capability to keep a prisoner humanely for the rest of their natural life in a manner that prevents them from harming anyone. As a Christian I want to not kill an innocent by error and I want the guilty to have the maximum chance to repent so I think it is wiser to not use the death penalty when not necessary.

What makes me ambivalent is, although we have the capability, we seem to lack the will and people who are a known violent threat to society are allowed to cause harm again. As long as they are on death row they can’t get a parole hearing.