Father Charged: 'Physical torture' cited in beating death of toddler [Utah]

Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 7/10/2007 | Stephen Hunt

[TChris]

Those are extreme examples. God has already declared the death penalty for murder, there’s no concern about man’s interpretation of justice. The government has the God given authority to carry it out.

Exactly. I agree with you completely.

What I don't agree with is the common FR sport of "put me in a room with him and a baseball bat", etc. Individual vengefulness and vigilantism is still a bad idea, just as it has always been. The death penalty, applied by an impartial judicial system, after a fair trial by jury, is a Good Idea.

My examples were those meant to illustrate just how badly wrong some people's concepts of "justice" can go. One father in recent news actually killed his neighbor based only on an accusation of molestation from his daughter. It may or may not have been true, but he didn't wait to find out.

That brand of "justice" is very, very dangerous to a society.

[TChris]

Gen 9:6 "Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.

I support the death penalty. I don't support beating or torturing him to death, however.

[TChris]

We'll see how beatings he hands out in prison.

Against very angry people who are big enough to fight back.

I'm guessing he didn't think that far ahead when he chose to torture that poor boy. :-(

[TChris]

I’d go along with that if he’s guilty.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Well, he'll certainly have to think about it now.

As soon as the other inmates find out why he's locked up, he will be in serious danger.