According to the "Liberals" on this site, there is not a distinction....
Is that the problem of seeing everything in gray?
No contrast between things, no distinction, even between the Guilty and the Innocent?
2007-12-18 18:32:14 · 12 answers · asked by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
By the way, even God makes the distinction between the guilty and the innocent...
2007-12-18 18:33:37 · update #1
Yes---but our system often fails to identify the innocent until after they have been convicted. dozens of people have been released from death row because of DNA evidence that was preserved---men, usually black---who were innocent and found guilty. how many more have been executed before the DNA technology existed---or will be executed because evidence has not been saved, or collected?
My problem is not with the death penalty per se, but the application of it. The guilty go free, the innocent are imprisoned or killed, and that may be rare, but it happens---a lot. 2 million Americans in jail, prisons or otherwise incarcerated---a few more with "life without parole' instead of execution is not necessarily a bad thing...
2007-12-18 19:28:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And I was under the impression that no one was innocent according to Christianity.
The question is more of a political one than a religious one, but I'll answer anyway.
There is a distinction, however they are alike in a few ways, and I do not think either justified. Not the murder of an innocent by a criminal, and not the murder of a criminal by the state. It is simply not a power I wish to grant my government.
It is compounded by the lack of certainty in capital cases. In some states up to 50% of people are later cleared AFTER they are sentenced to death. Sometimes, luckily, before they are actually killed.
One other thing, I have never seen anyone claiming that the two are identical, so where are you getting this from?
EDIT: Assuming for a moment God exists, then the different is that he knows the innocent and guilty, we do not, and that he knows the just punishment, we do not.
2007-12-18 18:45:33 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin M 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Death is death. The execution of the guilty or the murder of an innocent. It is still death. No man has the right to take another's life. Regardless of the circumstances. That is the job of the Lord.
2007-12-18 18:41:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Can you be absolutely certain that the person you are executing is guilty? If you can then yours is the first jurisdiction in the world to achieve that feat. What country are you in? Every one I know that has the death penalty has executed innocent men and women (and in some cases, including the USA, children). No-one can ever be sure.
2007-12-18 18:41:12 · answer #4 · answered by tentofield 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
of course there is a difference. and i consider myself liberal by the way. i think people say there is no difference because they run out of arguments against execution. i do not feel execution is right, but i still understand the difference between execution and murder.
2007-12-18 18:38:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't know any liberals on this site, including myself, who equate the two. But liberals on the site, like myself, see a certain irony in people who claim to afford infinite respect for life -- unless of course they want revenge. Then respect for life only goes so far.
And I think it's arrogant to presume you're always in agreement with the creator of the universe. It's a pretty good sign you've created him in your image.
2007-12-18 18:39:34 · answer #6 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
i think of you would be stressful-pressed to teach God opposed capital punishment. have you ever examine the Bible? you fairly could, in case you assume the commandment "thou shalt no longer kill" applies to capital punishment. At any value, God ordains human government and quotes government with the activity of coming up regulations and punishing incorrect-doers. i wouldn't in any respect vote for a candidate completely in this concern interior the 1st place.
2016-11-04 00:41:56 · answer #7 · answered by lanman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one is innocent.
For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
Thank God that through faith in the work of Jesus Christ, we have peace with God by trusting that the righteousness of Christ is ours through faith.
The Government has a duty to bring just punishment and show justice so that the law abiding may live in peace. and so that those who would disrupt the peace would think twice before doing so.
If you take a persons life intentionaly, you must give yours in return and all your belongings given to the loved ones of the person you killed.
if you wound someone you should be wounded and imprisoned.
The only people that should fear capital punishment, are those who would do something to be punished.
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.But one has to be honest with them selves; If I was imprisoned and accused of murder, would I still support the death penalty?
Yes I would.
But then, I know where I'm going.
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2007-12-18 18:38:02 · answer #8 · answered by Gypsy Priest 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Someone who coldly and deliberately murders another forfeits his right to life.
Justice should be carried out swiftly. No consideration should be given to whether the murderer had an unhappy childhood, or was mentally incompetent, or conveniently discovers jesus.
2007-12-18 18:45:09 · answer #9 · answered by timelord 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Imagine:
SCENARIO 1: Your mother/father/brother/sister/daughter/son walking down the street. Mugged for their money, and killed in the process for fighting back.
SCENARIO 2: Serial murderer/rapist at the gallows mocking his victims during his last breaths.
There is a massive difference.
2007-12-18 18:36:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋