1ºThe supposed 'pro-life' party strikes again.
'WWJPCO?', translated as 'Who Would Jesus Pop a Cap On?'
Or for another question: How many different options can a state have at its disposal as a means to kill someone in a fallible human system where far too many people condemned to death are exonerated, thankfully before the ultimate punishment can be carried out?
That pretty much tells us there have been innocent people put to death by the state. What about them? Are they just collateral damage to a codified version of vengeance?
The death penalty has never been about justice. It is about revenge. And revenge and justice are hardly ever the same thing...
2ºPat Murphy -- "they had ultimate punishment"? So...?
First, in case you are unaware, the U.S. is not a theocracy, no matter how much you might want it to be. Neither Biblical law nor Biblical stories apply to our system of governance.
Second, are we to apply ALL punishments found anywhere in the Bible?
Okay, let's start stoning people for adultery.
Let's shun, maybe even kill, people who eat shellfish.
Let's use the ceremony of bitter waters to cause a miscarriage in a woman who might be pregnant through adultery. Oops... Sorry. But isn't that one a case of the Bible offering a recipe for a concoction that today would be termed an agent of medicinal abortion?
Just how far do you want to push your religious justification for state-sanctioned killing...