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To: Zionist Conspirator

If memory serves, Viguerie has opposed the death penalty at least since the 1980s out of fear that an innocent might be executed by mistake.


48 posted on 08/01/2012 10:44:45 AM PDT by MadeInOhio
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To: MadeInOhio
If memory serves, Viguerie has opposed the death penalty at least since the 1980s out of fear that an innocent might be executed by mistake.

That is a legitimate concern. A court that executes someone wrongly is itself guilty of murder, a capital offense.

According to Noachide Halakhah only an eyewitness can convict someone of a capital offense. Hearsay, circumstantial evidence, and even confessions are not sufficient. Also, non-Jews are permitted only one means of execution: "by the sword" (which means beheading, though hanging will do). So we're definitely not doing it right.

I was simply concerned that he might be opposed to the death penalty in principal, even when execution is called for.

57 posted on 08/01/2012 1:58:09 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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