Why I'm for the death penalty

[ERCougar]

Damn, dude, you just made me cry.

Sorry...that wasn't my point.

What I see when I look at this is a life gone horribly wrong. This man, however despicable he is now, started out as a sweet little boy, probably not so different from my own. Through a likely rocky life, he transformed from an innocent child to a man capable of doing what he did--only God knows how responsible he is for this. It's an awful tragedy of a wasted life, but like it or not, God loves him, and in a deeper way than I love my own children.

I'm all for preventing tragedies like this from happening again, and if the death penalty is truly deterrent, then it may have a place in society; otherwise, it seems like it just piles on more senseless tragedy and mires us in seeking peace through revenge.

EDIT: I just realized that I'm focusing on the man in the story. I confess to only reading a little blip on the story that discussed what the man did to hide the remains and didn't read anything further, so I have no idea what the woman's role was. I'm not really interested in reading more of the details.

[DrumNFeather]

The desnews is reporting that the prosecuters are saying that there is not enough evidence to bring charges against the mom and step dad yet. But they do intend to seek charges of aggravated murder for both the slain boy's mother and stepfather.

[wuapinmon]

Just when I think I might be starting to change my opinion about the death penalty, stories like this one pop up, and I feel like this person has forfeited their right to live.

http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/...4fHho.facebook

[edward777]

After looking at their photographs I think that these suspects look pretty healthy. If convicted they could still serve society...between them they have two livers, hearts, four kidneys...

for transplantations!

The Chinese don't waste such resources.

[U-Ute]

Sierra Newbold. Another case for the death penalty.

This hit way to close to home. She played in the same soccer league as my boys. My wife volunteers for the league and had just placed her on a team for next season the week before she was killed.

[taekwondave]

Revenge is not a proper motive of a modern society, particularly one that is predominantly Christian. No, no one close to me has ever been killed, but I'm not sure what that has to do with what ideals we claim to espouse. Christian ideals are Christian ideals, and their existence doesn't depend on the difficulty of keeping them. Christ was pretty clear in teaching that revenge doesn't bring peace--most psychologists would agree.

As for your punishment motive, is that really government's role? We can't ever really provide "justice"--only God can do that. We institute laws and penalties to preserve order. Deterrence should interest us much more than punishment, and I have yet to see any proof of a deterrent effect of the death penalty.

Gosh that was well-stated.

[smokymountainrain]

Gosh that was well-stated.

blind squirrel.

[taekwondave]

blind squirrel.