Posted on 10/26/2007 11:47:50 AM PDT by Huntress
Jurors unanimously agreed today that Lisa Montgomery be put to death for killing Bobbie Jo Stinnett and stealing her unborn daughter nearly three years ago.
The federal jury deliberated about five hours. If jurors had not reached a unanimous decision in favor of the death penalty, Montgomery would have received life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Before the decision was announced, the judge ordered spectators to control their emotions or leave the courtroom.
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I think that you’re probably right, but I want to make sure. There’s a lot of issues where there’s no “rules.” We just have to seek out who God is and how He works in the lives of men.
uncanny...which witch is which?
If the murderer decided that the death penalty was acceptable for him to impose upon his victim (usually in a horrible manner), then the murderer gives up his right to say that the death penalty is not also acceptable for society to impose upon him. IOW it is simply using the murder’s own standards toward the murderer!
Even society at large should see the simplicity of that death penalty Golden Rule logic....”Hey...the murderer was pro-death penalty for his victim, so what’s the problem here?”
I totally agree. Those that are against it get caught up in the criminal more than they feel for the victim. Why?, because the victim is no longer alive to tell of their terrible fate.
You have to put on the shoes of the victim. Nothing justifies murder.
It can be righted only by the murderer to end up suffering, most of the time, a far more humane end than their victim.
We can only mete out justice by human standards. In the end, all go to their maker. It is up to the criminal and God from that time on.
HOLY CRAP!!!!!! DAMN!
Has anyone read about the details of the crime scene? It was gruesome. The death penalty was made for people like Lisa Montgomery.
I’m sure some idiot judge will overturn the verdict. If that psycho woman in Texas who drowned her 5 kids didn’t get the death penalty, why would we expect it to stick for this nutjob?
Almost 20,000 people were murdered and 1.3 million people violently assaulted in the US in 2006.
80% of these crimes were committed by repeat offenders, criminals who had been previously convicted of violent crimes.
There were only 53 criminals executed in that same time.
Every time a violent criminal is put to death, it saves the lives of 18 people on average.
Between 1967 and 1977 there were no violent criminals put to death and the homicide rate doubled.
Something to consider.
For those that are opposed to the death penalty, perhaps you should work to change the parole laws so that “life in prison” means “life in prison” -
otherwise, you’re simply sentencing these criminals’ future victims to death instead of the criminal himself.
A minor correction to the assumption in your post.
The child lives. The mother was killed.
In other words, Thou shall not kill, was changed from , Thou shall not murder. I believe the original was in Greek.
We had a visiting minister use the original Greek word and explain how and why it was changed. It was a long discourse
and hard to remember it all. You might check with a Bible historian.
Also we Christians should realize that in God’s time he will destroy all evil and from what I understand the innocent will at that time also suffer.
Karma baby, what goes around,,,comes around.
I remember when this story came out. I don’t think she’ll actually be executed though. While Missouri is not a weak-kneed anti-DP state, you know the media will give the perp full-scale sympathy treatment if an execution date actually comes up. If it’s a Dem in the Governor’s Mansion, there’s no way he won’t commute the sentence to “life”.
Thanks both for your comments—drawing attention to that contrast was my point exactly. Hillary’s minions kill the defenseless children and leave the ‘mother’ alive. In the case at hand the wretched killer ‘at least’ picked on someone her own size.
Both are horrible scenarios—but Hillary is reaping political-career profits from the continuing deaths of the defenseless and helping tax-subsidize millions of baby killings at Planned Parenthood.
Lisa will kill no more and isn’t running for political office.
I would go along with life if it meant life as you said, but I have trouble with paying for the scum for the rest of their lives.
Excellent. The death penalty is far from being given out lightly.
People against it should consider the people that are the victims. They should consider the future victims of those that get out after committing murder.
Murder is taking the right to life of another, no matter whether the person being murdered wronged you, got in your way, or was just a vehicle for someones perversion.
It is a just punishment in these instances.
The murderer may really come to Jesus, but it is our job to punish those who take away the rights of another to live in the society of man, we cannot know if theey are truly repentant, they can take that up with God.
I'm against it, not because of what it does to the recipient (I don't grieve for their deaths), but because of what (I think) it does to us.
Seems to me it was the right decision.
30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction (bribe/compensation) for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Num%2035:9-34;&version=9;
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