03-18-2016, 10:45 PM
Personally, I'm in favor of having a death penalty on the books. But I also believe it needs to be used sparingly and with much consideration. I think it is used far to freely in some places and with reduced consideration merely for political points and to gratify the public. I think a death penalty should only be used after a conviction AND an admission of guilt.
As far as punishing someone in the manner of the crime they committed, I am not for that. There is an inherent hypocrisy in telling society an act is wrong, and then performing that act upon someone. Basically, two wrongs don't make a right. Technically, someone could make an argument (and many do) that even the act of killing another person through the death penalty is hypocritical as you are usually punishing someone for killing someone else by killing them. But I think that is over-generalizing.
The Christian view is that we live in a world which is not equitable or fair in the human sense. No one gets "what they deserve". If they did, in the Christian theology, we would all have to die because we have all sinned against God, etc. That being the case, it is not right for us to entertain these notions of others "getting what they deserved". In the Christian theology, such a requests are interpreted by the Holy Spirit as meaning "I should get what I deserve" instead and forwarded on to God. I'm not sure that this concept is widely understood or preached here in our society, where self-gratification is taught to be a good thing.
Personally, I think an execution should be simple and fast. My preferred method would probably seem barbaric and distasteful to most people: take the convict into a special room where the ceiling is a 10,000 lb weight that is dropped on them, smashing them instantly. In one second, it is all over and you just go in, scrape up the remains and hose off the blood. As some of you may already know, I'm not real reverent about dead bodies. It is just bio-waste to be removed and disposed of, IMAO.
As far as punishing someone in the manner of the crime they committed, I am not for that. There is an inherent hypocrisy in telling society an act is wrong, and then performing that act upon someone. Basically, two wrongs don't make a right. Technically, someone could make an argument (and many do) that even the act of killing another person through the death penalty is hypocritical as you are usually punishing someone for killing someone else by killing them. But I think that is over-generalizing.
The Christian view is that we live in a world which is not equitable or fair in the human sense. No one gets "what they deserve". If they did, in the Christian theology, we would all have to die because we have all sinned against God, etc. That being the case, it is not right for us to entertain these notions of others "getting what they deserved". In the Christian theology, such a requests are interpreted by the Holy Spirit as meaning "I should get what I deserve" instead and forwarded on to God. I'm not sure that this concept is widely understood or preached here in our society, where self-gratification is taught to be a good thing.
Personally, I think an execution should be simple and fast. My preferred method would probably seem barbaric and distasteful to most people: take the convict into a special room where the ceiling is a 10,000 lb weight that is dropped on them, smashing them instantly. In one second, it is all over and you just go in, scrape up the remains and hose off the blood. As some of you may already know, I'm not real reverent about dead bodies. It is just bio-waste to be removed and disposed of, IMAO.
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