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The system that works was established by the God who created it. The Bible calls for the death penalty for pre-meditated murder when there are two or more witnesses. This is protected by the fact that the witnesses are culpable of the same penalty if they testify falsely. RESPONSIBILITY! Responsibility is a key aspect of God’s law. Evidence can be substituted, and faked etc.. No one has responsibility. A witness however, is taking on responsibility.

Guilt should be beyond any doubt whatsoever is impossible. No one would ever be found guilty of anything. Only culpability/resposibility is needed.

must represent a continuing threat to society... No. Another basic feature of Gods law is the punishment must fit the crime. You shed blood deliberately, your blood is shed deliberately. The principle of prevention is also important. Both current and historic data shows that a properly implemented death penalty is a deterrent for other violent criminals as well. Even if liberals distort data otherwise. If the person has committed premeditated murdered they ARE a continuing threat. Also keeping people imprisoned and alive in general is itself a threat to society. It robs society of its produce to feed and care for the incarcerated

incentives for convicting people of crimes gone... Everyone in society has an incentive for violent criminals to be convicted.

no societal benefit to keeping the person alive..."Son of Sam" Really?! Serial killers don't need to be kept alive for study. They need to die! Rather than trying to invent your own killer condoning system for the study of serial killers, why not accept the Creator's system and reduce crime?

system is too broken ...The Camm/Boney case would never have existed if God's law had been followed with Boney in the first place. Further we have what is called jury. His two previous convictions have been overturned on appeal. We need to restore proper jury use. A jury's decision is final. Guilty or not, there is no appeal, no retrial under slightly modified charges. Death or freedom, jury is final. Read about jury nullification here and here

I would like to point out that that is the lawyers' job to do "everything possible to their client off." No, It is never anyone's job to pervert law, to enable an injustice on society. We need to let go of that idea.

Sure. As soon as DA’s and prosecutors change their goal from “100% convictions” to “discover the truth of the case.” Until then, faced with the juggernaut of a prosecution with potentially unlimited resources, I want my lawyers doing “everything within their power.”

The system that works was established by the God who created it. The Bible calls for the death penalty for pre-meditated murder when there are two or more witnesses.

In Bible times maybe, in today's world you'd be executing innocent people every day.