I can nearly, but not quite, understand why some people object to capital punishment. ...
I'm a conservative but I object to capital punishment based on my place in reality. And it has nothing to do with any mistranslation of the Bible. I know the proper translation says "thou shall not murder.
And I am more convinced of my position since I joined FR less than a year ago.
I am against the death penalty and always will be until science, the courts and law enforcement officials can guarantee that an innocent will never be accidentally executed by our legal system.
That may never happen. So I suggest we join the civilized world and start working on how we are going to make a life prison sentence less desirable than the death penalty.
Many of us claim to be "pro life". Sometimes being pro life means being able to stomach allowing the most heinous of us to live because our desire to protect the innocent is the greater good.
I disagree with your requirement for 100% risk free application of the death penalty. The death penalty has saved thousands of innocent lives in America alone by deterring criminals from murder and effectively eliminating murders who commit murder. To eliminate the death penalty until you are 100% sure in all cases that the legal system is perfect would result in the deaths of 1,000's, just like we saw in the late 60's, 70's and 80's. Victims are also innocent in most cases, and they will die if you require 100% assurance. Life has risks.
--and for the vicious bloody-handed types who post on these threads, my wife was once on a jury trial of a man who was accused of "child molestation" in a divorce case--took about fifteen minutes to aquit him--
I,I,I. Like most anti-death penalty people you have failed to think the issue through. You let your self-aggrandizement impair your judgment. Go home and grow up, and check back in--oh, say, ten years or so.