Ohio Executes Condemned Killer

Newsnet5 ^ | February 12,2003 | Staff

[E Rocc]

We may not be Texas yet, but Ohio's not a good place to commit murder either.

-Eric

[conservativemusician]

""The first benefactor of forgiveness is the person who forgives," Coughlin said."

I forgive you for your idiocy.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Friends may call....

[conservativemusician]

How do you mean?

Do you believe in forgiveness for murderers?

[Sangria]

These people who say they are angry at God make me sick. Come judgment day, God might give them a real reason to be angry at him! I don't believe He promised us a perfect life.

[Still Thinking]

"I think it should be God who decides when someone dies," said Tiera Carson-Nicholson, 16 and a sophomore at Trinity High School in suburban Cleveland.

How does she know he didn't do so in this case?

[mabelkitty]

Here. Here. If the state don't get ya, all those gun toting Ohioans will!

[No Truce With Kings]

"Do you believe in forgiveness for murderers?"

I believe in forgiveness for murderers, but forgiveness is not the same thing as forgetness.

Forgiving someone for a sin committed against you does not imply remission of punishment. If my son lies to me, I will forgive him. However, that does not relieve me of my obligation to punish him (restrict privileges, in that case) for the transgression. And if he has repented, why then, he will not question the justice of the punishment. He will know that he has deserved it.

Somehow the trite aphorism "forgive and forget" has caused the meaning and purpose of forgiving to be confused with forgetting.

[The Great RJ]

"I think it should be God who decides when someone dies," said Tiera Carson-Nicholson, 16 and a sophomore at Trinity High School in suburban Cleveland.

Somehow I don't think it was God who decided for this guy's 18 year old victim.

[HIDEK6]

"I think it should be God who decides when someone dies," said Tiera Carson-Nicholson, 16 and a sophomore at Trinity High School in suburban Cleveland.

If this isn't an excellent example of "invincible ignorance," I don't know what is.

[conservativemusician]

"Forgiving someone for a sin committed against you does not imply remission of punishment"

Stated that way, I am inclined to agree.

Forgiveness is one thing, justice is another.

[smith288]

Forgiving someone for a sin committed against you does not imply remission of punishment.

Couldn't have said it better myself!

[cherry]

"Forgiveness is one thing, justice is another."

. ...and it sounds like this dead guy has done this type or crime, or at least tried to before....

attorney says he did all this deception in order to meet women...duh....doesn't he mean he did all that to rape women?.....

37 year old male vs a 18 year old nieve female....some match...

. while I am ambiguous on the death penalty, I find myself less so the more people protest the executions....almost like , if THEY are against it, then I am for it....

it is evil to have more reguard for the killer, the kidnapper, the rapist than the victim....it makes no sense...

..NOTE TO Protestors: IF you want to be against the DP..fine....but you had better also be a victims advocate, you better be manning the rape crisis lines, and you better be working loudly and vehemntly for no-nonsense prison sentences..

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Yes.
"Friends may call," at so-and-so funeral home, is the usual close in an newspaper obit.

[US_MilitaryRules]

I fogive the executioners! Plus a BIG thank you!

[ohiobushman]

Once again,I'm proud to be a BUCKEYE. Murders get what they deserve in Ohio!

[ohiobushman]

Once again,I'm proud to be a BUCKEYE. Murderers get what they deserve in Ohio!

[ohiobushman]

murders=murderers

[Sparta]

As good as time as any, who wants to be on my new death penalty ping list