Originally posted by The Dr. who fixed Lucy:
And don't a lot of these southern State Governors get electoral milage out of being good, God-fearing christians? If so, then what happened to the fundamental Biblical injunctions "thou shalt not kill" and "judge not, lest ye be judged". What is the death penalty, if not a judgment that a certain person should be killed?
I think the liberal Americans know in their hearts the truth, that the sooner the inhumane and logically, socialogically and morally dubious death penalty is abolished, along with the ridiculously archaic interpretation of the 2nd amendment that allows free gun ownership, the better.
If you're going to quote the Bible, you should also consider Gen. 9 (I think, I don't have a copy with me now), where it's written that the one who sheds a man's blood should, by man, have his blood shed. The commandment in Exodus 20 is about murder, period, not the death penalty, nor killing in war (see also Ecclesiastes, where there's even a "season" for killing, but not murder). Abortion isn't murder, conveniently, but I'll leave it at that.
Yeah, take away everyone's guns. That's the answer, all right. Didn't Hitler do that when he came to power? We've got enough gun control laws on the books. No one enforces them. If you can't tell, I'm of the "pry-it-from-my-cold-dead-hands" crowd.
Anyway, I digress.
First off, I'd never confess to a crime I didn't commit. Yes, for my family's sake, I'd exhaust all my appeals. But if it came time to insert the needle, I'd have to accept it, because I accept this form of government we have, flawed though it may be. But, then again, I'm not afraid of dying.
