Posted on 05/27/2015 3:31:56 PM PDT by GIdget2004
It would work if they made life worse than death.
Our technological advances are such that an imprisoned person is no longer a threat to the public.
Yeah, that's sticking with reality.
Atheist, huh!?
We still have the command from God to kill all murderers.
Save the guilty (remove the death penalty), Kill the innocent (abortion on demand).....
If we ever get judged by a higher power we are so screwed.
I, personally, still support it, although I do have significant reservations due to the FACT that there have been many false convictions in our justice system.
And if there has been even ONE person falsely convicted of murder, and then executed (and there has) then I have a profound respect for those who oppose the death penalty.
Executing someone unjustly is such a horrendous crime that it makes me willing to not have a death penalty, just so that one case can never occur.
Whether to have the death penalty or not is, IMHO, a good example of letting the People decide, state by state.
Hopefully, state legislatures, judges, and chief executives would reflect the will of the People on this issue.
I'm pretty convinced that Christ would not be a big death penalty fan. Of course, He would have the advantage of knowing for sure whether the person being executed was really guilty or not. But my gut tells me that Christ would probably not support it. And that's a compelling argument, as far as I'm concerned.
Okay well as long we are keeping murderers alive in prison why don't we use some technology and build one of these they can spend 8 hours day in!
Agony Booth
Kidding on that, however I do believe in "Voluntary Euthanasia" for prisoners who want to take their eternal punishment early and are already serving life with no possibility of parole.
Oh but we did. And we are living that judgement every day.
That's Old Testament, right?
If I'm not mistaken, the OT also authorizes the death penalty for adultery, or even for children disobeying their parents.
Not every dogma from the Old Covenant still applies under the New Covenant, and that's as it should be. The Judaic Law has been superseded by the Love of Christ.
That doesn't mean that "Thou shalt not kill" is invalid. But the Old Covenant, with its stridently legalistic promulgation of rules governing every nuance of living, was insufficient. That's why we have a New Covenant.
Suicide and euthanasia are just other words for murder. But somebody who really wants to murder themselves doesn’t need state accomplices to do it.
The Jewish Bible was given to Jews, and its laws only apply to Jews, except for ones given to Adam and Noah.
Those laws given to Adam and Noah are the minimum needed to make civilization. They do not address the status of one’s life after death. One of the laws given to Adam was executing murderers.
The death penalty should be reserved for the traitorous politicians that are destroying our country. Perhaps we can have Nuremberg trials after the coup that restores the republic.
, huh!?
States with and without death penalty:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/states-and-without-death-penalty
I’ve tried that before. I end up with a headache every time. Say something like criminals 1, unborn babies 0. That really makes them angry.
Actually no. The command to kill all murderers was given to all of mankind for all times as part of the covenant God made with Noah. Unless you believe that God’s promise to never again destroy the Earth with flood has also been rescinded.
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