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To: nwrep
The purpose of imprisonment, and even of execution, is to protect society and to bring the criminal to repentance. No one has the right to hope that ANYONE will go to hell. The purpose of execution is NOT to "send the criminal to hell." Anyone who hopes to see murders and rapes committed in prison, or who hopes that executed criminals go to hell, is full of hate, and is thereby guilty of murder, including the murder of his own soul.

I could wish that Geoghan could have been sentenced to life in prison. I could wish that he could have been executed by lawful authority. But it is criminal to hope that ANYONE actually ends up in hell.

719 posted on 08/24/2003 1:30:51 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan
What an excellent post!
722 posted on 08/24/2003 2:18:08 PM PDT by AlbionGirl (A kite flies highest against the wind, not with it. - Winston Churchill)
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