Re: Death penalty

Cancel?  With all the appeals and checks and balances, the likelihood of an
innocent is slim to none.  In fact as of the last time I researched it, there
has never yet been one proven, as any doubt usually mitigates the sentence
usually.
 
And a life sentence is no assurance of public safety, life sentences get
commuted.  Life offers absolutely NO deterrent factor.
 
As long as the DP is reserved for the worst and most heinous crimes, and the
system includes reasonable efforts to ensure guilt beyond question, Then I
support it.
 
As for grace, the killers have plenty of time to repent and find forgiveness
when their sentences takes 10-20 years.  From a biblical standpoint I am not
uncomfortable.
 
 
 
 
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Thurman Allen II
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 3:37 PM
To: DADL (off topic)
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Death penalty
 
I'm with Paul on this. I've not seen the death penalty work as a deterrent and
can't see criminals thinking, "Oh, I shouldn't do this. I might be killed by the
state." But if I'm wrong and it does work as a deterrent, it also holds the
inherent danger that an innocent could be put to death for a crime they did not
commit, which cancels out the benefit as a deterrent.
 
The fact that lifetime imprisonment could bring danger to those guarding them
doesn't wash for me - guards know the risk going into it. Neither does the cost
- when it comes to life and eternal souls, money doesn't hold much weight for
me.
 
From a faith standpoint, I can't support anything that puts vengeance in the
hands of human beings. We're far too fallible. My primary objection is the death
penalty completely removes the possibility for grace in the criminal's life.
Killing them takes away any opportunity for the grace and love of God to reach
them. God's grace and love is more powerful than any crime. And while it might
satisfy our concepts of justice, I think it oversteps God's.
Æ
 
 
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From: pcg <[email protected]>
To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, November 8, 2010 5:02:27 PM
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Death penalty

> So you only see the death penalty as vengeance?

Of course, as that's precisely what it is. It serves no useful social
purpose, neither as a deterrent nor as an implementation of justice.
It *is* more economical than imprisonment, but that's not the same as
being useful (and, at any rate, the question of economics has no place
in a debate about taking human life).

The death penalty has no function other than to serve as a
state-sanctioned act of vengeance, which provides closure for those
deprived and satisfaction for those interested.

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