[QUOTE="verparanoidpers"][QUOTE="chrisrooR"][QUOTE="Jocubus"][QUOTE="chrisrooR"][QUOTE="Jocubus"]The death penalty is reserved for the most depraved and perverse criminals that will never repent for their actions and are incapable of reform. Essentially they are broken beings (I won't even use human here) and as such their living presence should seem like an offense to all around them. Especially sickening are those who revel in their past deeds. chrisrooR
what about the wrongly accused?
Due to the advances in recent technology the number of wrongly accused is on the decline. There is also the appeals process, the ridiculously long period between sentencing and the execution, etc. I doubt many people are given the death sentence if they are wrongly accused considering the evidence resulting in their conviction would be mostly circumstantial or extremely weak. Juries generally only give the death penalty when there is overwhelming proof of guilt and a general lack of remorse.[QUOTE="chrisrooR"][QUOTE="verparanoidpers"][QUOTE="chrisrooR"]IMO, some murderers are subhuman (IE child-killers)[QUOTE="verparanoidpers"][QUOTE="SlashDementia3"]Taking a life any way is wrong, no matter what the crime... Do you not think of the person's family, or people who care for him? Yes they bring it on themselves but to go to such extremes... :S
People should stop generalizing and saying Christains do this and that, you can use "some christain" but hey that's just me talking... If a christian is in favor of it, he is probably just a christian in image and not at heart.
verparanoidpers
that's your opinion, however, religiously speaking no one on earth deserves to have their life taken away, regardless of their past.
why?Because (if you are religious) life is God given. Why oppose abortion then? You're doing the same thing, taking away a life. Personally, i'm not religious, however i am extremely opposed to the death penalty, its just not ethical.
taking away the life of an unborn child is in no way at all comparable to taking away the life of a convicted murdererNo. That is your opinion. A convicted criminals life is still a life .
how can you possibly sit there and say the life of a convicted murderer is just as valueable as the life of an innocent child?Because, whether or not your opinion goes along with it, it is.
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment..." Matthew 5:21-22
as i've already stated, there are 2 words for kill in greek, and one of them is the word for murder, and jesus uses the word for murder.
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