Posted on 10/27/2014 12:58:17 PM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
Imagine being told you are going to die in a month. Then it's a few hours. Then another month. You may be set free or you may be killed, and it all depends on events that are completely out of your control. How long could you stand it?
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If a person intentionally takes an innocent life, they forfeit their right to live. The highest moral position is to take the guilty life as payment for the innocent one. Where is the morality in letting the guilty person live?
If we carried out executions in 3 years or less, the costs would be greatly decreased.
Jesus said many times that He did not come to judge, but to save. If I am to be Christ like in living my life, how am I to judge others?
It’s a constant temptation and I find myself failing often, but I still keep trying to be a better person.
“If a person intentionally takes an innocent life, they forfeit their right to live. The highest moral position is to take the guilty life as payment for the innocent one. Where is the morality in letting the guilty person live?”
I try to live the New Testament as a Christian rather than the Old Testament.
‘they commit suicide’
What are the statistics on this?
good for you.
I seek a just world and I believe the death penalty is defensible in the eye of God and by most moral definitions.
When Jesus surrendered to the death penalty was he actually against it?
Yes. Because governments are supposed to be “a terror unto good works”.
Terror.
Stops people from acting out the thoughts that get into their heads.
Of course, if your government is no longer moral - that’s a problem.
The murderer of Chicago mayor Anton Cermak was put down within 40 days of the crime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Cermak
What takes so long now!
Here's your assignment for this evening: Your task is to provide this class with the number of inmates who have been sentenced to death over the past 50 years.
Out of those inmates, how many were actually executed and how many are still sitting on death row waiting for their appeals or sentence commutation?
Last but not least, how many multiple appeal death row sentenced inmates have been found innocent and subsequently released in the past 50 years?
And for extra credit, how many hardened criminals released on parole have returned to the street and committed even more heinous crimes than they were previously convicted for?
Don't worry about it, WE'LL take care of it for you.........
If you should ever happen to be a jurist on an open and shut murder trial, I hope you can convince the deceased's family of your failure to convict him........
People who manage to avoid getting sent to death row usually don’t face this type of issue. That makes one’s course of action fairly clear, I think...avoid murdering people, and you probably won’t have to worry about “death row syndrome.”
i said this on another thread earlier today...
gather up 10 thousand of these bastards..
put them on an island...
give them each a dollar...
tell them all it takes 10 thousand dollars to get off the island...
when one is left with 10 thousand dollars, simply say to them..
“sorry pal, we lied.. here are 10 thousand more..
now it takes 20 thousand to get off the island”..
repeat as necessary
I think maybe it’s time you stop fooling yourself. You judge people all the time. Everyone does. And we’d be in a world of hurt if we didn’t.
But if you seriously believe you’ve pulled demons out of people, you need to review your prescriptions.
That is a clever idea. I feel no sympathy for these people, I hope they repent but even if they do, whatever happens to them is fine with me.
Call me Hard Hearted Hannah, if don’t care.
What do you do with a murderer who kills another prisoner? Give him an extra life sentence?
So how would you behave if on a jury and forced to “judge” the guilt or innocence of another?
“So how would you behave if on a jury and forced to “judge” the guilt or innocence of another?”
Generally I know the guilt or innocence just by being around the person. I have worked with the state police homicide detectives and told them the details of a murder case and who did it. I described the murder, how it was done, described the building it was done in and the weakness of how to get to the person who committed the murder. All this while never leaving the conference room in the police office.
They thought I was in on it as the details were too accurate. I ended up picking the person out of a stack of photos without seeing any of the photos, just the blank back side of the paper. Freaked out the detective but he knew I was not faking it. I also ended up telling him about his life so he would not think I was in on the murder.
I won’t do this type work anymore as you can’t imagine how horrible it is to connect with the hysterical spirit of the murder victim to get information.
Stupid article. They’ll delay the execution if they have a cold.
It seems to me you are confusing judgement and discerning. We ARE called upon to exercise discretion.
Should these men be executed for being so weak that they allowed their physical bodies to be taken over?
So these men were not responsible for their sins?
Not buying it.
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