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Sannhet
People don't really care that capital punishment is ineffective. They want revenge.
posted by
jollyjeff
on March 15, 2005 at 2:29 PM
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Unicorn -
Sorry I didn't reply sooner. I didn't notice your comment. No, I don't think he should get a free ride. Nor do I necessarily think that our prison system is a deterrent - it, like capital punishment, is not. I do not however, like the hypocrasy of saying our goal is to love and then go off and kill someone. That's an unacceptable action for followers of Jesus/Yeshua and goes against his message, in my opinion.
posted by
sannhet
on December 20, 2004 at 2:09 PM
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sann, so you propse than
that killers should be kept in prison for life, living for free on our tax dollars? Free room and board, food, clothing, healthcare etc. etc. and be able to file appeal after appeal? mmmm, sounds pretty comfy to me.
I'm a Christian and I see no justice in our IN-justice system.
Laci and her son were not given life, why should Scott get a free ride?
posted by
PastorB
on December 16, 2004 at 2:22 PM
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Jolly-
You think we'd wise up given all the evidence of its ineffectiveness, wouldn't you?
posted by
sannhet
on December 16, 2004 at 1:37 PM
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Capital Punishment is not
only immoral, but it's been proven to be an ineffective way to fight crime. Of course that should be obvious, any immoral policy is bound to be ineffective as well.
posted by
jollyjeff
on December 15, 2004 at 3:46 PM
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you'd think we were out of the dark ages
but no . . .
if you look at the history of justice and particularly in the O.T., from which most Christians take their ideas about justice, you will realize that trials were a method of protecting the accused from unwarranted vengeance by the surviviors of the victim -- and taking steps to ensure that the accused really was guilty.
Particularly in the O.T., checks and balances were in place to protect a person accused of a crime.
We don't necessarily follow those guidelines, though -- like the evidence has to be "from the mouth of two or three witnesses" -- at least.
Today we indict a person on pretty flimsy evidence and maybe even just on epieces of evidence at that --
The idea is to win -- not to really come to justice.
Today the justice system becomes all to often a tool of vengeance -- just as if the survivors had taken a pistol and put it to the head of the accused -- the justice system becomes that pistol.
and the family feels "justice is served" -- they wouldn't have if he had been found not guilty -- and the crowd cheers -- there should be no cheering for someone dying. his family is not cheering.
but of course Christians are pretty hard-hearted, aren't they? They send a man to his fate with the idea "he deserves it" -- what is the word -- "do ounto others"?
would they rejoicing if they had to meet the same fate? or one of their loved ones? I doubt it.
posted by
Xeno-x
on December 14, 2004 at 9:06 AM
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I was just wondering .... :)
posted by
Dark_Dreamer
on December 14, 2004 at 8:23 AM
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As far as I know, both myself and sannhet were expression opinions on hypocrisy, not the sentence itself. I know better than to start getting into THAT on Blogit! ;-)
posted by
roofpig
on December 14, 2004 at 7:45 AM
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Dark -
Rather than state-sanctioned killing? Yes. There needs to be discipline for breaking laws established by the people. But death shouldn't be an option.
posted by
sannhet
on December 14, 2004 at 7:45 AM
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Scott Peterson
So you would rather see him locked up for life and/or fall victim to prison violence?
posted by
Dark_Dreamer
on December 14, 2004 at 7:38 AM
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So true! I love how I meet someone who says they are Christian, yet believe in the death penalty. Makes my brain hurt.
posted by
roofpig
on December 14, 2004 at 7:34 AM
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