Death penalty: Foundation of government

WND ^ | November 18, 2009 | Joseph Farah

[Freddd]

We the citizenry put them there. We fail to remove them through votes.

But this coming Congressional election and the next several, that will ‘change’.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Excellent response.

[bogusname]

Do you defend those who die through abortion with as much zeal?

“1. Guilt should be beyond any doubt whatsoever; the usual criteria of guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt” doesn't cut it for hanging somebody.”

Without any doubt whatsoever, babies in the womb have committed no crimes. If you believe point #1 you surely must be fighting to save the unborn. If not you have no right to use it.

“2. The person in question must represent a continuing threat to society should he ever escape or otherwise get loose. The “bird man” of Alcatraz would not qualify, John Mohammed clearly would.”

If someone kills you and you alone and will never harm another they should still be put to death. Point #2 is illogical.

“3. I'd want all career/money incentives for convicting people of crimes gone which would mean scrapping the present “adversarial” system of justice in favor of something like the French “inquisitorial” system in which the common objective of all parties involved was a determination of facts.”

I find it utterly amazing you didn't use defense attorneys as an example. In the OJ case they found OJ’s blood at the murder scene. They found Ron's, Nicole's and OJ’s blood in OJ’s Ford Bronco. They also found a bloody glove at OJ’s estate. OJ took a bag of money and ran from the police. Yet clever defense attorneys helped him go free and the jury felt the evidence didn't cause them to be “without any doubt whatsoever” to use your own term.

“4. I'd want there to be no societal benefit to keeping the person alive. Cases in which this criteria would prevent hanging somebody would include “Son of Sam” who we probably should want to study more than hang, or Timothy McVeigh who clearly knew more than the public ever was allowed to hear.”

Anyone can murder. Therefore, this point is the most ridiculous of all. If some man tortures you for three weeks and then finally kills you but because has an interesting psychological makeup you want us to keep him alive? Have a little mercy on us good guys as well as a little common sense.

Even God commanded that we should put murderers to death. Are you wiser than Him? Some foolish people think that Christ removed capital punishment because of the woman caught in adultery. That is not the case. The religious leaders of that day sought to prove that Jesus the commoner did not know Mosaic law. The law concerning adultery states that you will put both the man and the woman to death. A woman can not commit adultery by herself. It was an illegal trial. Furthermore, the crime had to be witnessed by at least two people and that one of those witnesses had to throw the first stone. Christ, knowing that they had seen the woman's nakedness but had let the man go, basically said “ok mister, you watched this...are you innocent?” You see it was a story about how the leaders themselves had broken the law to trick Christ. God still expects us to impose the death penalty.

[Carriage Hill]

BKMRK.