“most of the industrialized world looks with horror on the United States, in this regard, as a primitive and backward country.”
Yes, those civilized industrial countries are so great. Like Britain where you can be decapitated in the street by Jihadists, or Sweden where pedophiles can adopt.
And for the record, these nations so lauded by liberals are few and far between industrialized anymore. I haven’t seen ‘Made In France’ on anything lately. The Netherlands is of course known for its booming industries!... maybe the porn and pot industry.
I don’t care what the Euros or Canadians think. Murderers like this scumbag in Oklahoma (whose victim wasn’t given their own in depth article at Communist News Network) deserve to be killed. He murdered a 19 year old girl for crying out loud.
As for the Christianity of the death penalty, this is yet more revisionism and selective reading for the Jars-Of-Clay re-interpretation squad who must spend their little time at those universalist congregations writing snide articles rather than praying.
We are taught not to conduct God’s judgement on others in the form of capital punishment. Stoning adulterers is indeed wrong and has been since the end of Ancient Israel. However, while we may not kill in pursuit of God’s judgement, we can act lethally in defense of ourselves and our own. That is why (certain conditions met) murder can be punished with the death penalty in this country. We conduct this sentence in our own defense, for the convicted has declared war against all of us with his heinous act. For that he may rightly and justly be condemned to death just as he condemned his victim to death.
An eye for an eye stands as principle. When you gouge out another’s eye, EXPECT your eye to be gouged in response.
Yes, let's be like Norway, where Anders Brievik gets 20 years in a country club prison.