The Death Penalty

[Kabowd]

LOL...you offer multiple posts with misinformation and then respond with "you're simply wrong" and a link to a website? "deathpenalty.com"? This is what you call research? I consider that insulting....

[Kabowd]

Gotta love it when people prefer "Google" over information from actual Criminal Lawyers, Judges, Legal Journals and Criminal Research. I guess if you can't find it online anymore it's not for real! LOL!

[Smalcald]

But you can

[Smalcald]

The facts are the facts.

Certainly we can say that the individual is deterred from killing again if he is dead. But most people who are sentenced to murder do not actually get the death penalty. Like I said most are rotting away on death row using expensive legal challenges paid for with our tax dollars.

It is a mess and a phony fake issue that people want to scream about but makes no actual difference in crime rates in a state. Simply look at the states that have the highest murder rates and the ones with the lowest. It is not brain surgery, out of the ten states with the lowest murder rates in the US, six have no death penalty.

Of the ten states with the highest murder rates all have the death penalty.

It does not work to reduce crime. Now it might make us feel better, it might kind of help our blood lust to kill someone who is rotten, I understand that. If someone killed someone in my family I would want to kill them, and this is part of my sinful human nature.

[Guest stevej]

I am against the death penalty.

It is inconsistent, a murderer who is black gets killed more than a murderer who is white, a male murderer is killed at higher rates than female murderers, poor murderers are killed at higher rates than rich ones, and we make mistakes. The court system in our country is far far from perfect, so yes we will and have killed innocent people.

I don't get it what is the point? The only point I can come up with is pure revenge, the good feeling of watching some admittedly rotten human being suffer. But I think a life in prison is actually worse. From a Christian standpoint would we not want to give a person a chance to repent?

These are the figures from Texas related to capital executions. Your theory at least in Texas is not valid.

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/annual.htm

Also, just a point of interest...the only woman executed in the state of Texas was Karla Faye Tucker in 1998. She made a real profession of faith while on Death Row. She did not use her Christianity as a dodge or a bargaining tool to avoid the death penalty.

[Kabowd]

But you can

[eric]

Because I live in a country thay doesn't have a death penalty, I'm neither for nor against the DP, because unlike Kaboud I have neither the time nor the inclination to study it deeply enough to give a valid opinion.

However for those are for it, I wonder how many of them would volunteer to give the injection or throw the switch, of even witness an execution.? I like to see a murdere caught and tried and found guilty, but I wouldn't have the heart to condemn him to death....I don't think.

[Guest LadyC]

amen, butero.

eric, i support the death penalty. not as a means of revenge, but because it's Biblical, and because it's often necessary. that doesn't mean i'd want to witness it or to take part in an execution. i don't even like watching them enacted in movies.

[apothanein kerdos]

However for those are for it, I wonder how many of them would volunteer to give the injection or throw the switch, of even witness an execution.?

I would depending on what they did. If it were the Carr brothers I'd have no problem and in fact would ask to have the honor of doing such a thing.

[eric]

Lady C ans AK. We are all different and maybe it's just as well. Before I made my decision for Jesus.....my decision??....anyway I was right into blood sport, like deer stalking, duck shooting, wild boar hunting. ya know? kill kill,but now I haven't the heart for it. The only things I can exterminate are vermin, rats mice cockroaches and the like, but because Paul said that God doesn't approve of factions enmity or strife etc in the book of galations, I would'nt get up tight and protest vigourously wih someone who believes the DP is scriptually or morally the right thing to do. Ya get me??