I would rather trust God to administer the ultimate punishment. But what do I know? I'm just a freal'in idiot. BTW, how many people over the last five years or so have been released from prison after DNA testing established that the jury who convicted the person had erred?
After all we have to allow a natural death to be Pro Life!
God will, and that has nothing to do with the death penalty, stay on subject.
BTW, how many people over the last five years or so have been released from prison after DNA testing established that the jury who convicted the person had erred?
Shocker, the system works!
Produce an innocent that has been executed in the last 50 years and we can talk about changing the system, provided that you can show the system at fault and not one bad actor sabotaging it.
But you still ignore the basic problem with eliminating the death penalty: You automatically place higher value on the life of murderers than their victims. He gets off with a prison sentence from which escape, parole, a liberal judge, are all possibilities for an unfettered life. The victim will always be dead.
You ignore the very real probability that he will kill again, either in prison or after the next liberal judge sets him free.
All this so you can feel self-righteous and superior.
So let's break it down a bit. Would you agree he deserved death if he (the murderer) was convicted based on hard DNA evidence, admitted guilt and declared he could avoid the death penalty because he was under age?
IMHO, Folks who can't support the death penalty when justified suffer from the same brain warp that drives all liberals.
In Romans, Paul states that God institutes government to protect its citizens and administer justice. The ultimate punishment, eternal judgment will be administered by God, but He also gave us the ability and the responsibility to administer justice through our governments.