2006-12-29 17:31:34 · 10 answers · asked by darthyoon 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Nothing. The death penalty brings society down to the level of the evil ones which it is trying rid itself.
December 29: Vatican official says executing Saddam would be wrong: http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5865506&nav=menu83_2
December 30: Vatican spokesman denounces Saddam's execution as 'tragic': http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2006-12-30-vatican-saddam_x.htm?csp=34
Jesus, John 8:1-11, spares a women guilty of adultery whom the Mosaic Law said should be stoned to death.
If the guilty person's identity and responsibility has been fully determined then non-lethal means to defend and protect the people's safety from the aggressor are more in keeping with the common good and the dignity of the human person.
The Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives.
However in today's modern society, the capability of rendering the offender incapable of doing harm - without definitively taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself - the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity are very rare, if not practically non-existent.
With love in Christ.
2007-01-02 16:57:57 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing warrents a death sentence. It is a far worse punishment to put someone in solitary confinment for the rest of their lives than to kill them. Remember a few years back when the Oklahoma City Bomber asked to be excuted? Death was an escape from his guilt. People how commit henous crimes should be forced to live with the guilt of those crimes until they die a natural death. The worst punishment that can be given to be locked in a small room, never seeing or hearing from another person for the rest of your life.
2006-12-29 17:41:37 · answer #2 · answered by robbet03 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think someone who intentionally kills innocent people is a threat to society and therefor they should face the death penalty because they will never be able to lead a normal life out of prison and should they escape it would put more people in danger.
2006-12-29 17:35:49 · answer #3 · answered by 2007 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am all for them. i like how the iraqi gov has the rule that if you are sentenced to death it must be done within 30 days.
now should it be hanging all the time? i dont know but i really do believe that if you are sentenced the death penalty thats it. no appeals, no fighting it. you were given it so take it. the USA takes forever to kill people on deathrow. it needs to go faster.
2006-12-29 17:35:37 · answer #4 · answered by No Know 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Basically nothing. Maybe gassing a bunch of people. Maybe selling weapons to death squads in Nicaragua. It'd take a lot for me to say that someone else deserves to die.
2006-12-29 17:35:52 · answer #5 · answered by anecdoteman1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Child (1-12) Molestors...especially repeat offenders...
2006-12-29 17:44:45 · answer #6 · answered by Alex Freaking Trebek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crimes against humanity...ie genocide and murders in general.
2006-12-29 17:34:20 · answer #7 · answered by patti duke 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The intentional killing of another person.
2006-12-29 17:35:03 · answer #8 · answered by Bugged Out 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any crime against a child.
2006-12-29 17:34:42 · answer #9 · answered by Jon's Mom 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
nothing
2006-12-29 17:43:42 · answer #10 · answered by SEG48 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋