If it is wrong to kill, than why is the death penalty acceptable?

Answer 1

The death penalty is not acceptable. Civilised countries have abolished it.

Answer 2

The death penalty as it is called was instituted right after the flood. You can see in Gensis 9 that God has given this directive to be carried out by the authorities of the nations. You are the image of god because he created you. If someone takes your life willfully then they have no consciense and have struck out at the very image of god. Their blood is required of them or the earht becomes pollute, defiled so to say with more murderers on the loose. It is the same for animals as well. If there is an animal on the loose that has attacked and kiled someone then the life blod of that animal is required and men will hunt that creature down and kill it.The bottom line is that the death penalty was and is suppose to deter murder but the communists, I mean democrats want to con everyone into thinking its wrong to have it so our taxes go to feeding these killers who arent fit to live anymore and the ones who do get out have and will kill again. They preach their stuff on everyone but what about the mother whos daughter was brutally raped and then hung. The husband whose wife was shot in the head when she took a wrong turn down a street. The mother whos little girl was sitting on a mailbox while visiting a friend and got hit by a bullet meant for someone nearby. Tell the grieving man that its wrong. The man went into his kitchen to make linch for his wife who was nursing her daughter. Bullets outside hit their intended target but 2 strays came through the walls of the house and killed the mother and the baby. Where are the murderers? They are still on the loose. Many are the unsolved murders that have taken place in this country and if the death penlty was upheld in due respect for natural law then there wouldn't be all this mess. Its wrong to have it say the liberals but let someone come to their home at 3 am and rape and kill. Then they could feel the pain and know clearlythat those who do such evil deeds need to be put to death...not on death row.

Regards, Ammoconfidential

Answer 3

First I will say I am against the death penalty, but it is murder that is wrong, killing happens often by accident, in self protection and other terms. The right of a government to order the death penalty or to wage war has always been upheld

Answer 4

I have wondered this same exact question many times. I don't think it's right but I have also not been effected by a murder of someone close to me at the hands of a criminal (knock on wood). I suppose it boils down to the government believeing in hands-on karma ~ you get what you give so to speak.
It's odd though; the government can't wait to get you into the army , where they brainwash you into a litteral killing machine - you are actually encouraged to kill everyone that's on the "other team", other human beings, people you most likely have never known and have no personal grudge with; but as soon as you are back to being a civilian then it's a crime to kill, even if the person is a carjacker trying to kill YOU!?

Answer 5

because if you kill someone you deserve to be killed back.In Texas if three or more people seen you kill someone you dont wait on death row for 10 or 15 years either they move you to the front of the line. Some states are trying to do away with the death penalty but in Texas they are putting in an express lane. LOL

Answer 6

The death penalty is not acceptable. We should not kill people.

Answer 7

It is not wrong to "kill" otherwise we would not have a military. It is wrong to "murder", and the proper and just punishment for murder is death. No one has the right to take the life of another human being without just cause. Self defense is just cause. Hatred is not. The only proper punishment for this most heinous of crimes against humanity is death. Societies do not exercise capital punishment out of anger or hatred or rage, but out of a detached sense of justice.
If you don't like the death penalty, move to a state or country that doesn't use it. There are plenty of them out there.

Answer 8

I don't think the death penalty *is* acceptable. It IS killing -- state sponsored and controlled killing -- and a government that kills is worse than criminals that do so.

But I'm in the minority...and the hard-core-right-wing-neoconservative-christian-nutcases that seem to be the majority in the US right now have already deluded themselves into believing the earth is 6000 years old, that we're all descended from adam and eve instead of evolved, and dozens of other fantasies...so what's one more contradiction that's not logical or consistent with the teachings of the guy they claim to follow (jesus)? Fry all the criminals, they say, and they would if they had their way :(

Answer 9

For many of us, the death penalty is not acceptable because it is wrong to kill.

Others feel it is wrong to kill except in certain circumstances.

Still others feel there are many reasons to kill others.

It's a debate that has gone on for centuries.

Answer 10

Killing is a means to separate the bad people (those that don't fit into our societal norms) from the rest. Prison does the same thing, only temporarily instead of permanently. Killing isn't wrong in all cases, just wrongly applied much too often. The right to life isn't a natural right; it is statutorily granted by society to people who choose to live by the rules of that society. The only natural right is the right to try to live. Our behavior is a choice, and anyone who chooses to live outside the rules of a particular societal group is giving up the rights that are granted by that society's laws. Sometimes a society (or it's leaders) decide that other societies don't have the same rights, and that is the justification they use to go to war.

Answer 11

The death penalty is a punishment not a random choice or pre-meditated one. There are monsters on earth have no doubt about that. Child molesters, and rapists shouldnt get a second chance to repeat.