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Originally Posted by Antipas
No conservitive can support the DP?
Do conservatives value individual life and liberties? How can conservatives embrace a system that has and will wrongfully prosecute an American citizen?
No real christian can? because it doesnt match your doctrine?
Do Christians value individual life and liberties? How can Christians embrace a system that has and will wrongfully prosecute another human being?
Are those wrongfully executed merely acceptable losses to preserve the government's power to execute citizens? Are they like the necessary eggs broken to bake the cake? How can a Christian embrace such a position?
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Antipas, below is an article that I wrote for an assignment that I recently completed. This is for you.
Should the U.S. Continue to use Capital Punishment?
I believe that the U.S. should continue to utilize this method of justice for a couple of reasons. Having made this statement, I would like to interject that no system of justice is infallible, and there is nothing that humanity can do to avoid mistakes in any of the decisions that they might make in the future.
The first reason that I support capital punishment is based upon my moral values from my upbringing. These values are biblically based; however, even within the bible there seems to be some contradiction to certain individuals. The faith based men and women who dispute the validity of such punishment, should turn their attention to
Numbers 35:16-21, and also verse 30. One argument from this passage might be the fact that we as Christians are not bound by those laws which were written to the Hebrew people. If that is there argument, then one could easily remind them of a universal law submitted by God before the laws of the Hebrews. This law is found in
Genesis 9:6, “Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.” I question the validity of someone’s argument that the death penalty isn’t morally right, in fact, based upon the scriptures it is a moral responsibility to carry out this punishment.
Capital punishment should also be utilized for the victims’ families. Sources from three different web sites reveal that a majority of Americans are in favor of the death penalty; these polls show that the U.S. adult constituency has supported this practice by at least 60% since the 1980’s. The web links are:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/arti...id=23&did=1266 ,
www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/opinion.htm , and
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/polit...poll000619.htm . Being that I am a strong proponent of democracy, I believe that Americans should decide on this issue as well.
To answer an article on why lethal injection would be humane depends upon whether “humane” is subjective. When someone says that killing is inhumane, they should take into consideration of the countless victims who faced the same “inhumane” actions of those that murdered. Based upon this reasoning, I would say that it is more humane to administer an anesthesia, paralytic, and then the potassium chloride, than to utilize whatever weapon the murderer used. Some of the arguments based upon the media’s article from the St. Petersburg Times are also in question. In the article, it has been stated that witnesses thought that Angel Diaz “appeared to suffer” when he was administered the drugs. What comes into question from the preceding sentence is; how would they know? Are they medical professionals? The gasping and movement by the condemned are normal occurrences of the drug being administered. According to the web link found at
www.nebi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17094530, fasciculation typically happens when the anesthetic drug is administered to begin with. The same drugs that are used for lethal injection are also used by operating room anesthesiologists (other than the actual potassium chloride). Why is it that these drugs aren’t remembered as painful by their patients? Humane is subjective in this case.
The most important element to remember is the victims’ families. People want closure from the violence and injustice caused by someone else’s inhumane act.
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