[Capt. Tom]

The Catholic Church doesn’t like death penalties. I understand that: once you’re dead, you can’t repent.

I would expect a God should know what is in your heart, and be able to sort out the wheat from the chaff, whether there is repentance or not. -Tom

[Tax-chick]

I don’t know, but I know I’m glad that I wasn’t “frozen” at the worst point in my life. Perhaps it’s different for people who have never committed serious sins. Since I have, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to learn and repent, I’m inclined to want others to have the same opportunity. I’m not looking to the past, “What did she do?”, but to the future, “Does she need to be stopped from doing it again and again?”

And, “Can it be stopped?” Plenty of people persist in evil because it’s evil that is not illegal. Or because they’re not found out.