Justice may require execution, but we should never rejoice in taking the life of another human being. At best, capital punishment is a necessary evil.
I think that gentleman misunderstood the cheering of the crowd. I know that if I were there I would not have been cheering for the taking of the lives of 234 of my fellow humans but instead I would have been cheering for final justice for 234+ victims of terrible crimes.
People have a strong need to believe in capital punishment, and they will accept anything that allows them to support it with an untroubled conscience.
Personally, I believe that if you take a life cold-bloodedly, you should have to forfeit your life. But I do not believe that the government is capable of delivering the ultimate punishment in a fair, accurate manner, 100 percent of the time.
Anyone who ever sits on a death sentence case can tell you it is not an easy thing that the state asks you to do. When you are asked to judge the guilt or innocence of a person and by that judgment bring that person’s life to a premature end; the words beyond a reasonable doubt need to be well understood and taken to heart.
Justice is never easy and mistakes are made but for civilization to endure it is absolutely necessary. The current state of civilization in Europe today is a clear demonstration of the results of slow and unsure or non-existent justice. The violence and skyrocketing crime rates are a clear result of a lenient justice system.
Civilization is the only true social contract; a term that the Left so frequently uses to describe the redistribution of wealth. By this they mean that by taking money from those that have much and giving it to those who have less we will ensure a peaceful civilization with little crime. Well the results of that contract speak for themselves.
The real social contract that is civilization is that the individual surrenders the right to seek his own justice to the state. If the state fails to carry out that justice for enough of the people who have been wronged for long enough the criminal element in society will come to no longer fear justice for crimes committed and will commit crimes at will. When justice for the injured carried out by the state comes to be seen by the people as a failed contract the people will seek justice for themselves and civilization will fail.
Chaos will ensue.
Well said
“The real social contract that is civilization is that the individual surrenders the right to seek his own justice to the state. If the state fails to carry out that justice for enough of the people who have been wronged for long enough the criminal element in society will come to no longer fear justice for crimes committed and will commit crimes at will. When justice for the injured carried out by the state comes to be seen by the people as a failed contract the people will seek justice for themselves and civilization will fail.”
We are drawing very close to that point now, particularly in some areas of the country.
It will come to that, eventually.
Not sure what will happen _after_ that time comes....
Just predictin’....