I vacillated over the years, but that is my position based on some insight most people don’t experience
Yours is a unique and horrible experience; your compassion has a place.
Still, I look at it this way. If my life was full of vile troubles of the sort that led me to take an axe to children, maybe an adult for full measure, cut them to pieces as they begged for their lives, yet my mental illness compelled me to slay them. . . .
They would still be dead if I repented and accepted Christ -I could not take it back.
And if I truly repented and accepted Christ, I should surely wish to pay the ultimate price for my murderous sin.
To wish otherwise is not true repentance. I can repent of a lie told and ask forgiveness of the living person I hurt, but the dead can not forgive, so true repentance should be acceptance of the price of the crime.
You are correct.
But I am not the one to do the state’s justice, in that particular setting. At the time of the offense, I would not hesitate.
Just my take on it all...
From what they told me in Texas, Karla Faye was legit- but she still deserved to die...