Only God can make that decision. When men do it.....we have committed the same act.
Says who? God?
a court and unbiased jurors should decide guilt.
And according to DNA evidence and the recent overturning of over 100 death penalty convictions, they are often wrong.
I know that 90+% of these people are guilty and 95% are likely guilty of other terrible crap. But I cannot find, in my head, an acceptable number of innocent people that it is OK for us/we/me, to kill, just to ensure that we have exacted revenge on the remaining people who really did deserve it.
Says who? God?
I guess I am a typical uncivilized American who has not yet attained your exquisitely refined sense of morality. As such, I am glad this vile piece of rat filth is no longer with us. There are several thousand more just like him that should be send to join him where it's hot, and the sooner the better.
Well because the state has plenary powers to punish criminal offenders, using laws passed by elected legislators, subject to a constitution.
that's the cliff's notes version.
btw, read your Bible sometime, God pretty explicitly gave us the right to execute criminal offenders in Deuteronomy. That is certainly a delegated power.
Well because the state has plenary powers to punish criminal offenders, using laws passed by elected legislators, subject to a constitution.
that's the cliff's notes version.
btw, read your Bible sometime, God pretty explicitly gave us the right to execute criminal offenders in Deuteronomy. That is certainly a delegated power.
Yeah but it also punished rapists by making them marry the woman they raped, if she got pregnant as a result.
And if you beat a woman to miscarriage, you had to pay her owner for loss of property. (typically the husband)
We sure Old Testament is a ****in standard we want to go with?
Yes you are. You would fit right in with Iran and North Korea.
Why should a rapist get to live, while their victim's quality of life has been diminished significantly because of his actions?
what happens if you make rape a capital offense?
an incentive for the rapist to kill his victim
Sorry TD, we all know that Capital Punishment isn't a deterrent to crime. It doesn't prevent crime, or encourage it. Thank the ACLU for supplying me with a comeback.
Ever heard of the New Testament? Or just conveniently forgetting for the moment?
what happens if you make rape a capital offense?
an incentive for the rapist to kill his victim
Jews don't seem to have any problems with the Old Testament.
I'm all for punishment...I simply fail to see how killing someone for killing someone is ever justified. We are not God.
I am damned glad I am not overly civilized.
It ensures they will never, ever kill again.
I have zero sympathy for him. He got what he deserved.
America is too good for you.
It has nothing to do with sympathy. It has to do with being a civilized society.
Murdering people is not civilized.
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