Death is Not the Answer

Townhall.com ^ | February 22, 2020 | Kathryn Lopez

[Jim Noble]

Death is Not the Answer

Depends on the question.

[Pollster1]

Depends on the question.

Agreed. In many cases, the correct answer may not be pleasant. I worry that America is getting dangerously close to asking that kind of question.

[D Rider]

He deserved to die. Justice demands it. Glad he turned his life around. If he accepted Christ as his saviour, then no loss and all gain for him, and he has been released from the burden of his brutal past.

[P.O.E.]

To be or not to be. That is the question.

[aynrandfreak]

Gee, now maybe the left will like her. /sarc

[jacknhoo]

In the USA and any other technologically advanced society, where the imprisoned present no further threat to society, the death penalty is sinful.

[wastoute]

Well, there’s no question he won’t be killing anyone else.

[Adder]

Maybe it should not take 34 years to carry out a sentence....

[Jim Noble]

where the imprisoned present no further threat to society

It is an injustice to take from our children in order to feed, house, and contain them.

[billyboy15]

It is an uncontested and irrefutable fact that the rate of recidivism among those prisoners who are executed is zero.

[NTHockey]

True, if the sentence had been carried out in a timely manner, perhaps the security guard and inmate might still be alive.

[jacknhoo]

It is cheaper to keep them alive than to kill them.

[yldstrk]

“In the USA and any other technologically advanced society, where the imprisoned present no further threat to society, the death penalty is sinful.”

I agree. I am still haunted by the public execution of Timothy McVey. Disgusting.

[Kaslin]

If he deserved to die is not for us to decide. He turned his life around. So God probably forgave him and he is in Heaven. I have no idea.

[Hugh the Scot]

No, actually it is not.

[D Rider]

Your right. It was for a judge and jury to decide. And they did.

[jacknhoo]

You confuse a man being worthy of death with his killing being justified.

[Jim Noble]

It's cheaper to keep them alive than to kill them

That's just an argument to hang them on the courthouse lawn, one that I more or less agree with.

[yldstrk]

I don’t know what you mean. Timothy McVey was “worthy” of death, as you say. But he shouldn’t have been killed by the state. Maybe you didn’t understand my comment or read it.