Posted on 04/20/2015 1:46:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
Anyone who denies the deterrent effect of the death penalty is a fool.
It is only a deterrent when used expediently and without prejudice.
Inhuman monsters like the two creatures that murdered Kelsey’s sister deserve to be put out of their misery.
One other thing that pisses me off, is how some lib thinks they are all smart when they say “You belive in the death penalty but not in abortion”. Obviously they don’t belive in somethign we call “Due Process”. The Murderer took another person’s in cold calculated blood and as such is GUILTY of taking another life with intent to do so. While a Baby is innocent.
It is simply a matter of punishing the guilty who have taken something that can neverbe returned once taken, and that is LIFE.
I don’t personally care if it deters even a single murder. It is a just sentence to pronounce upon the guilty.
I never knew this about that poor girl. Now, not being very religious, how can God let this happen to anybody?
Then I’m a fool. I did crazy things in my youth with NO THOUGHT of the consequences. Lucky I never got caught. No not murder or rape, but theft.
These animals don’t care but that doesn’t mean I’m against the death penalty. I’m FOR IT.
If executions were carried out within hours of conviction and in public and in a brutal way, it would be a deterrent, but some vague possibility of maybe dying 20 yeas down the line is not a deterrent.
> “You belive in the death penalty but not in abortion”.
“Abortion” is premeditated murder.
Premeditated murder or murder as the result of perpetrating any other crime should be punishable by death.
I don’t know why I assumed he was a liberal, but I find that he is a Republican. Hopefully a conservative one.
Men have free will. God does not guide men’s hands.
The difference between the death penalty and abortion is the child did nothing wrong to anyone. In fact the child is being wrongly accused and executed without even the benefit of a trial.
> Now, not being very religious, how can God let this happen to anybody?
A very popular question, and a very valid one.
The simple answer is that people are given a free will. It is pointless to intercede in their actions, because the complete ugliness of sin cannot be revealed without seeing its consequences.
The life we live here in this “reality” is a supernatural process. The supernatural transcends the natural, and the suffering and terror are brief, in the greater scheme of things.
I understand that provides no comfort to a “naturalist”, but nature is not what you think it is.
Watch some of the series on Quantum Mechanics on youtube. You will begin to see the supernatural nature of our universe. Even though the physicists themselves refuse to see it, it is plain and right in front of them.
The Bible? That’s just so First Century (and older). What relevance can it have now? /sarc
Of course legal penalties don't deter 100% of crime...any more than doctors' advice deters 100% of lifestyle stupidity.But punishments,including the DP,surely deter *some* crimes.That is when they're surely (and swiftly) meted out.
Yes he is.
Sometimes people can get so passionate that they verge into bad logic and bad theology.
There was nothing in the Noahide or Mosaic law that declared the execution of Christ to be a righteous act on the part of Pilate. Isaiah 53 describes it as “oppression.”
This is not to address other considerations, but going too far weakens the power of your case.
The libs say “You belive in the death penalty but not in abortion.” Maybe ask them “What did that baby do to deserve death, pose a nine-month inconvenience to its mother?”
The libs might be closer to the truth: all humans deserve to die, God said so at the original sin.
We have to be careful not to beckon on the suicide of denying grace.
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