Nope. Just saying that you haven't "deterred" someone by killing them, you've incapacitated them. Deterrence is for those still living. However, I see your point. Life imprisonment SHOULD be an incapacitation. Better?
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Nope. Just saying that you haven't "deterred" someone by killing them, you've incapacitated them. Deterrence is for those still living. However, I see your point. Life imprisonment SHOULD be an incapacitation. Better?
I bet that was quite a moving scene to watch.
I for one would definitely be singing a different tune. Who am I Jesus? I'm not going to forgive a guy like that. I'd want to shoot the guy till I got tired of it.
There's something that I think a bunch of you guys are confused about. What I would do as an individual in this situation and what the state should do in the cold light of reason are not the same thing. The state shouldn't be in the business of giving me my revenge.
Young man kills other young man in a street fight...
Same as "man rapes, shoots and buries young girl alive" ?
Understood
But a lot on this thread are preaching no death to the convicted for any reason by anyone. As in totally against death. Be it for punishment, redemption, retaliation etc...
To everyone who is riled up about my posts:
I'm what you get when you take your kids to church. I'm not religious now, but I kept all that stuff they taught me about the death penalty. You can't shake some of your raisin'.
I'm what you get when you take your kids to church. I'm not religious now, but I kept all that stuff they taught me about the death penalty. You can't shake some of your raisin'.
Methodist, huh?
"Rather than shooting rapists, it is women`s Christian duty to submit to rape, according to an article by Reverend Allen Brockway, editor of the official magazine of the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church. He poses the rhetorical question, 'Is the Robber My Brother?' and Reverend Brockway answers, 'Yes.'
"Rev. Brockway recognizes that the woman who is accosted in the park may not think of her violator as her neighbor, or that his 'safety is of immediate concern'but, Brockway preaches, 'Criminals are members of the larger community no less than are others. As such, they are our neighbors or, as Jesus put it, our brothers. . . . [Though violent criminals act wrongfully,] it is equally wrong for the victim to kill the robber or burglar, save in those extremely rare circumstances when the unambiguous alternative is one own`s death.'
The United Methodist Church is also one of the leading gun control supporting organizations in the United States.
You use the Methodist Church as a basis of morality and dare to call us "...intellectually lazy, hypocritical, morally depraved people...?" You're dismissed.
I agree! They should allow the victim's family to choose the method of execution and allow them to pull the proverbial trigger. If the family can't or won't, send the prisoner back to prison for life.
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