In Texas we have the death penalty and we....USE IT!!
Posted on 07/07/2011 5:05:55 PM PDT by Kartographer
A Mexican national was executed Thursday for the rape-slaying of a teenager after the U.S. Supreme Court turned down a White House-supported appeal to spare him in a death penalty case where Texas justice triumphed over international treaty concerns. Humberto Leal, 38, received lethal injection for the 1994 murder of Adria Sauceda. She was fatally bludgeoned with a piece of asphalt. Leal was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m. EDT (2221 GMT).
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In Texas we have the death penalty and we....USE IT!!
I don’t think the conservative stance is hypocritical. There’s a difference between innocent life (the unborn) & the guilty (so adjudicated in a court of law). One undeserving of death & one reasonably found to be deserving of losing life.
I would agree that it’s bad form for conservatives to celebrate the taking of a life.
On the other hand, it’s perfectly alright to be happy at a victory over Obama interfering with Texas law. ;-)
Adultery is a LITTLE different than rape, horrible torture and MURDER of a child.
I am really disturbed by the celebratory theme of this thread. I 100% behind this, but really, does it need to be applauded? I don’t know. It just seems weird. I got a sick feeling in my stomach. I don’t want to see someone be killed, this guy deserved it, but the celebration seems kind of off kilter to me.
I have never understood this line of "reasoning." Perhaps you can explain it better.
I believe in killing murderers and not killing innocent human beings. Thus anti-abortion and pro death penalty. Seems perfectly consistent to me.
I just don't see how it is possible to look at the judicial execution of a brutal adult murderer (after extended due process) and infanticide of an innocent, and then say, "These are the same thing."
That said, I don't celebrate executions. I just feel a sense of quiet satisfaction. Some trash has been taken out.
Looks like the Bamster loses again . . .
I would pull the switch with a smile on my face and then go eat a sandwich. I don’t celebrate his death, I celebrate all those who lived because he was belatedly executed.
Why would Barry pick this fight? He looks like an idiot now. /as usual
He also said “ in Texas, if you kill someone - we will kill you back”
The Koran says "Kill the Hypocrites". Modern Leftwingtardism isn't really different than that.
Here's your problem with capital punishment ~ only few are chosen. Almost without exception these are hard core stone cold sociopathic killers.
If you keep them around in a prison population long enough they'll kill again ~ maybe a guard, a fellow prisoner who is a white collar criminal, a visitor or maybe some other category of person.
It's statistically demonstrable that this happens.
When you execute these guys they don't kill again. If you tarry, a certain fraction ~ a very large fraction ~ will kill.
You may have thought you were escaping the knowledge of some specific person being put to death by opposing an execution, but all you've done is trade the killer for another victim you probably don't know and will never hear about, nor care about.
This bifurcated reality behind execution leaves Christians with a choice ~ kill a known killer or by keeping such a killer around kill an unknown stranger later on.
Which is the morally superior position? Think about it like that.
Thank you for this explanation of your idea. It helps me understand.
Sorry OBummer....Texas isn’t ‘Dream Acted’ upon all that easily now....
I’m afraid you’ve got it wrong.
You probably aren’t aware of the “Texas Seven.” I covered my change of mind due to these murdered in my blog on today’s execution: http://wingright.org/2011/07/07/death-penalty-in-texas-internationally-criticized/#entry
God is for capital punishment.Jesus Christ did not do away with the law of capital punishment. God takes it very seriously when some one murders or rapes one of His children. Yes, according to God’s law, the punishment for rape is the same as murder, death.
http://www.biblestudygames.com/biblestudies/capitalpunishment.htm
Actually no one is “CELEBRATING” an execution.
What people are happy about is that zero didn’t get by with yet another attempt to consolidate power in the WH and UN.
Zero has done everything he can to make Texas life miserable. Luckily he has FAILED yet AGAIN.
You would not have lasted very long in the Old West then. Whole families came to town to see someone hang. And, it did not take as long as this did. He killed an innocent kid, the president tried to interfere, the UN tried that too but it did not work. Good for Texas.
“Funny how “conservatives” are pro-life and pro-death penalty. While liberals are pro-choice and anti-death penalty.”
never thought of that.Do you mind if I use that .
Not quite: it was Noah.
Genesis 8 20 And Noah built an altar unto the LORD, and took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savor; and the LORD said in His heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." Genesis 9 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 4 "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. 5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require. At the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein." 8 And God spoke unto Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 9 "And I, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you -- of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish My covenant with you: Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." 12 And God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud. 15 And I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the rainbow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth." 17 And God said unto Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth." [KJ21]
As you can see, the rainbow is a sign of the covenant (italic) that is directly led into (bold) by the command to do capital punishment (underlined).
So, every time you see a Rainbow you should reaffirm to yourself that man's life is worth very much; but also that murders must be killed.
In addition, Christ stated “render unto Caesar the things which are Caesars.” Caesar can demand the death penalty for violation of the Caesar’s laws. Apparently the Good Lord recognizes we live under a dual governance: God and Caesar.
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