if you get the death penalty for murder, why doesnt the executioner get the death penalty?
why is it ok for the government to give permission to a person to take a life and it be ok?
2007-06-26 05:12:17 · 15 answers · asked by rel3ir7hs.clone.for.answering 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
i understand what you are saying. its there job and they are blah blah blah. they are still taking the life of someone. why can the govt say its their job. the bottom line is that they are allowing the taking of another life.
2007-06-26 05:20:03 · update #1
it is NEVER permitted to take a life... "thou shall not kill"
death penalty is a state sponsored murder...
the true measure of a truly great society is how it treats the lowest of its citizens, we have never learned that lesson.
2007-06-26 05:24:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
When it's the executioner it's not capital murder. It's a legal punishment, carried out by a contractor or employee of the state.
Not everyone who kills another person is subject to the death penalty. There are lesser degrees which carry lesser penalties, but executioners are simply doing a job, as is the case with a police officer who kills a suspect in the line of duty.
2007-06-26 17:03:21 · answer #2 · answered by Warren D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is what Govts do, they pass judgment and make laws and enforce them.. The executioner is not personally executing the prisoner but he is doing the job of the state. Actually you and I as citizens of the state are executing the murderer
2007-06-26 05:17:37 · answer #3 · answered by † PRAY † 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
in case you prefer to ascribe to the theory-approximately a look ahead to a watch, then the debt is paid whilst the assassin is placed to death. in spite of the undeniable fact that, it is not any longer sufficient to argue from that factor on my own. the government is entrusted with the secure practices of our society, meaning that if an execution is the terrific thank you to guard society-which includes prisoners-then they proceed with doing so. to that end, the executioner fills the comparable function as a soldier, who kills an enemy soldier to circumvent him from harming others. in case you seem at information, murderers in reformatory are lots extra possibly to kill human beings in reformatory with them than criminals who have not committed capital offenses. With modern-day judicial standards coupled with right this moment's technologies, the probability of executing the incorrect person-lengthy a reliable argument against capital punishment-is almost 0. The death penalty is in simple terms used whilst the information is irrefuteable, or so overwhelming that it leaves little question of guilt. The executioner isn't a possibility to society, so there is not any reason to place him to death. he's in simple terms doing what he's paid to do.
2016-10-18 23:02:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very good question! I don't know that I could live with myself if I had that job. The only way I could kill another human being (even a murderer) is trying to save my family or my own life.
2007-06-26 06:38:00 · answer #5 · answered by Psalm91 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first person who commited murder broke the law.
The judge who gave him the death penatly is the law, and the executioner is abiding by the law and doing his job.
It's like Hammurabi's code.
"An eye for an eye..."
Meaning like, an eye unfairly taken deserves the eye to be taken from the guy who took it.
Make sense?
2007-06-26 05:17:32 · answer #6 · answered by H. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Murder is the taking of an innocent life. the executioner is not murdering...he is killing a person guilty of murder.
2007-06-26 05:20:24 · answer #7 · answered by LDS~Tenshi~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand your question 100%. I once asked my Pastor about this and He replied......"Well I wouldn't want that job!" I was excused from Jury duty once because I answered that because of my religious beliefs I could not judge a person to death, Life without parole, yes I could live with that, but I could not sentance someone to death.
2007-06-26 06:11:48 · answer #8 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it's because of the old testament teaching, "an eye for an eye, a hand for a hand, life for a life."
Could you be an executioner? I couldn't.
2007-06-26 05:17:09 · answer #9 · answered by kiwi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am completely against capital punishment in any form. Killing is killing and killing is wrong. HOWEVER, I think if I were to be incarcerated for the remainder of my life, I would want to die. The 'justice' system makes mistakes all the time and there are large numbers of people in prison for things that they did not do. HOWEVER, if it were me and I were in prison for the rest of my life for something I didn't do, I would want to die sooner, not later. Prison would be like a form of torture and I wouldn't want to be there for an extended period. It would be better to be dead and innocent than innocent and incarcerated.
2007-06-26 14:28:44 · answer #10 · answered by Candidus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋