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Posted on 4/16/13 at 10:10 am to sorantable
Posted on 4/16/13 at 10:10 am to sorantable
Depends on the nature of the crime.
The death penalty has proven itself a bad deterrent for murder by itself because most murders are committed in the heat of the moment and are devoid of all reason. The process of keeping someone in prison for years while they await death is also a pretty expensive thing as well.
I'm not necessarily morally opposed to it; though, in particularly heinous crimes. Murderers who I cannot express any empathy towards in any way, like serial killers, would be a good example.
The death penalty has proven itself a bad deterrent for murder by itself because most murders are committed in the heat of the moment and are devoid of all reason. The process of keeping someone in prison for years while they await death is also a pretty expensive thing as well.
I'm not necessarily morally opposed to it; though, in particularly heinous crimes. Murderers who I cannot express any empathy towards in any way, like serial killers, would be a good example.
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Posted on 4/16/13 at 10:14 am to Ross
An eye for an eye - The Lord refers here to the law of retaliation mentioned in Exodus 21:24, which obliged the offender to suffer the same injury he had committed. The Greeks and Romans had the same law. So strictly was it attended to at Athens, that if a man put out the eye of another who had but one, the offender was condemned to lose both his eyes, as the loss of one would not be an equivalent misfortune. It seems that the Jews had made this law (the execution of which belonged to the civil magistrate) a ground for authorizing private resentments, and all the excesses committed by a vindictive spirit. Revenge was often carried to the utmost extremity, and more evil returned than what had been received. This is often the case among those who are called Christians.
That being said, hell yea I support the death penalty!
That being said, hell yea I support the death penalty!
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