Posted on 12/13/2005 8:44:38 AM PST by minus_273
VIENNA, Austria - California's execution of Stanley Tookie Williams on Tuesday outraged many in Europe who regard the practice as barbaric, and politicians in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's native Austria called for his name to be removed from a sports stadium in his hometown.
At the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI's top official for justice matters denounced the death penalty for going against redemption and human dignity.
"We know the death penalty doesn't resolve anything," Cardinal Renato Martino told AP Television News. "Even a criminal is worthy of respect because he is a human being. The death penalty is a negation of human dignity."
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Actually Cass (AKA Cass Corridor) would be a better street...
Boy, my list of why I will never again travel to Europe after having been there 4 times in my life just keeps growing longer and longer.
The Eurotrash are 229 years too late to dictate policy in his nation. Europe can go pound sand.
Unto Caesar those things which are Caesar's and unto God those thing which are God's.
Redemption is the realm of the spirit (God's), law and order is the realm of the state (Caesar's).
Those Austrians, and all of Williams' other defenders, ought to take a long, hard look at what Williams did.
The US Catholic Bishops had more discretion than this shoot-from-the-hip Martino.
They kept their mouths shut.
During the French Revolution they were lobbing off about 50 heads a day, no trial, women, children and old folks included.
Who cares....Look at the problems they have!
Sorry, Cardinal. The death penalty guarantees a zero percent recidivism rate. The offender won't kill anyone ever again - either outside on the street, or inside the walls.
Thug Stadium?
Amen to that. Anything that pisses off the Euro-trash is OK by me.
-ccm
You kow...that's a good idea. We sentence them all to death. Under European guidelines concerning immigration they should be eligible considering they face the death penalty at home.
We then ship them all off to Europe where they contribute nothing to society and just make things worse.
Who gives a flip what the Europeans think about the death penalty?
Doesn't the bible condone the death penalty?
Does Europe condone the Bible?
Euros abolished the death penalty years ago, as part of the permissive social milieu that we have now seen brought to its logical conclusion in the Islamofascist riots, rampant rape, and skyrocketing crime.
Even so, at the current rate it would take us thousands of years to equal the European execution toll from the twentieth century alone.
As a native of Scotland, I was astonished and disheartened to see the UN report indicating that Scotland is now the most violent country in the world. When I was a boy, in the 50s and 60s, it was safe to walk down literally any street in the country at any time of the day or night.
Today, it is not safe anywhere, thanks to the drug culture, the moral erosion that is the natural result of families being kept on the dole for generations, and the PC attitude that licenses any form of barbarism from Muslim immigrants.
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