As a Christian....Do you believe in death sentences?

Question

I poured a glass of wine when they executed Tmothey McVey and Roger Dale Stafford (Steakhouse Murderer who lived on deathrow for 20 years).

Answer 1

I support the death penalty. But I think the death penalty nowadays is to humane, they should go back to hanging, stoning, torture, etc.. Those people were vicious murderers, why should they get to be treated in a humane way. And I also believe people should get the death penalty for rape, child molestation and pretty much any sexual crime. Killing someone can sometimes be in self defense, but there is no sexual crime that is self defense.

Answer 2

As a Christian, I am not against the death sentence. However, did you know that it costs more to put a man to death in America's prison system than it would to give him a life sentence without parole? Why that is, I don't know, bc honestly it makes no sense if you think about it. Back in the days of the Bible when they gave someone a death penalty, they stoned, flogged, etc criminals to the point of death Nowadays, they gather the victim's family and the criminal's family in a little room, put the criminal on a gurney and administer a series of drugs, which include an anesthetic to put the criminal into a deep sleep, then a paralyzing agent which relaxes the muscles and paralyzes the diaphram and lungs, followed by the toxic agent given in a lethal dose. But some people these days actually question the constitutionality of lethal injections. Compared to the Bible days, the method used today seems rather humane! I think the most cost-effective way would to just shoot the criminal in the head. That would get the job done and save tax payers MILLIONS of dollars each year! I could think of a few ways to put those tax dollars to better use than ensuring a criminal get a comfortable death. You know?!

The following is an excert from a book I read not too long ago. The book is called "Answers To 200 of life's most probing questions" by Pat Robertson......

" Is capital punishment wrong?
Capital punishment is unfortunately a necessary corrective to violent crime.
In ancien Israel, there were no prisons. A thief was commanded to pay back four or five times what he had stolen or damaged. Public whippings were also administered to criminals
In ancient Israel, it was believed that blood shed in murder would defile the land and that shedding the blood of a killer was restitution to the land.
Those who were considered incorrigible, who had committed unseemly acts that turned Israel against God or destroyed the fabric of society, had only one alternative--capital punishement. Through capital punishment, society was rid of that offense, and the land was cleansed of evil.
In the Ten Commandments there is the prohibition, "You shall not murder." Righteously administered judicial executions were not considered murder and therefore not prohibited by the Ten Commandments. In fact, the same law that included the Ten Commandments also had clear provision for capital punishment for specific offenses.
Capital punishment, if administered surely and swiftly, is a great deterrent to crime. It is no deterrent whatsoever if it is uncertain and continually delayed. But if those who scoff at society, and who constantly prey on innocent victimes, were aware that death would be the penalty for their actions, we would see a dramatic drop in our crime rate.
Today we place criminals in penetentiaries--places of confinement in which the offender is supposed to become penitent or sorry for his sins. In truth, these places are breeding grounds for crime. In even the best of them, 85 percent of the inmates will be incarcerated again.
Society must pay for the anguish suffered by the victims of crime, then pay again each year to hold the criminal in prison, a cost equivalent to an Ivy League college education. The biblical model is far wiser. The perpetrator of lesser crimes was returned to society where he was made to make restitution to his victim. The hard-core, habitual criminal was permanently removed from society through capital punishment. In neither case was society doubly victimized as we are today. "

Answer 3

I do believe in the authority of the government and the judicial system to carry out what they think fit in order to deal with the crime in the society and also check it from spreading. All authority is given by God. If it was a personal sin against me, I would NOT try to avenge blood for blood because I am a Christian, but if the law caught up with him and decided that he should be put to death, I would not stand in the way of law taking its course.

Answer 4

my friends who are Christians say that god made the judge sentence a man to death so he can be punished after death but to me i think it is letting the murderer of too easily because when he is dead the pain is only for a split sec but the pain he brought to the victims family is a lot greater so i think he should suffer for the rest of his life and not get a death sentence

Answer 5

YES I DO.

Murderers need to be executed.
They also need to suffer for what they did.

I became a Christian and I suffered.
Make no mistake, it isn't a free ride.

The preachers would make it sound like a free ride but it isn't.
There are other forces in this world.
Some of us find out about them in a very real way.

Answer 6

I think I'd rather be dead than in jail for the rest of my life, so I don't think a death sentence is always the worst punishment. Morally speaking though, 'thou shalt not kill" but you also have 'an eye for an eye' so it's an endless debate.

Answer 7

I personally believe that they pay more for what they have done, when they are alive and in jail, death is like getting away with an easy sentence, since those that are dead, don't know anything anymore,

Answer 8

No....I don't believe in death sentence....I believe in repentance...and I will swear by the late Pope John Paul ll when he forgave the one who shot him! Death sentence is only for God to say when it is time to go to his home!!! When someone commits a crime, they should punish that person and rehabilitate that person to make him see what he has done wrong...judgement on death should be left to God.....

Answer 9

I don't know i believe that they're gonna die anyway and when they do Satan will be waiting for them unless the get saved but the death penalty sometimes they deserve it i'm at a cross roads
on this one

Answer 10

Death all the way!! Im not a christian tho, just believe in the death penalty.