This rates right up there with the argument made by those who favor abortion. “If you don’t want women to have abortions then you should be willing to adopt dozens of children.”
You’re right, I wouldn’t be willing to take that risk. But this is why I don’t choose to be a prison gaurd. They understand what their job is and they choose to do it. As for the other prisoners, they know what prison is like before they enter it.
That’s like saying, “Against Abortion? How many kids are you willing to adopt?”
How is subjecting others to murdering neighbors a moral decision?
Those who oppose the death penalty help increase the number of murders.
You’re right, I wouldn’t be willing to take that risk. But this is why I don’t choose to be a prison gaurd. They understand what their job is and they choose to do it. As for the other prisoners, they know what prison is like before they enter it.
It sounds like you think the entire Catholic Church is complicit in increasing the number of murders due to the Church’s opposition to capital punishment.
If, however, non-lethal means are sufficient to defend and protect people's safety from the aggressor, authority will limit itself to such means, as these are more in keeping with the concrete conditions of the common good and more in conformity with the dignity of the human person.
Today, in fact, as a consequence of the possibilities which the state has for effectively preventing crime, by rendering one who has committed an offense incapable of doing harm—without definitively taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself—**the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity "are very rare, if not practically non-existent."**68Well, I think you think that I am making this stuff up. There is this guy, his name is JESUS, he says it is no longer eye for an eye, he says to turn the other cheek, he does not say punish, he says FORGIVE! Where does JESUS say that it is ok to kill who has killed? He doesn’t say turn the other cheek unless that person killed somebody, he says turn the other cheek. He doesn’t say it is no longer eye for an eye unless somebody has killed somebody, he says it is no longer eye for an eye. No exceptions. You are stating YOUR opinion, I am stating Jesus’ word.
Jesus was speaking of interpersonal relationships.
“Some reject retribution on the ground that the New Testament portrays God as a God of love, mercy, and forgiveness.
Can you proove that statistically?
The reverse is true. Those who do not oppose the death penalty end up spending more of tax-payer’s money.
A murderer has time to repent before his execution. That is his second chance.
As a society, our duty is indeed to protect innocent life. Unfortunately, any human court system is flawed and subject to prejudice. Rare indeed are the cases where we are 100% certain we have the right man.
And if a murderer has truly repented, then what are we saying by executing him? Had this logic been in place, Moses, King David, and the Apostle Paul - all murderers - wouldn’t have been around to testify and prophesy to the redeeming nature of God.
Ok, that is perfect, God killed people for crimes that we would not consider capital offenses. So does that mean we should consider those crimes punishable by death also? If God himself took the lives of people, even in the New Testimant then don’t you think we should just leave it up to Him? If somebody truely was a threat to society, don’t you think that God would take of you? I find it hard to keep responding to your responses, I understand that God does things that we do not do, but He is God and we are not. He created even the killers and rapists, and He loves them all the same. The world we live in is definately a messed up one, but it’s the one we got. We can’t start making up our own rules and ignore what we were told just because some people are breaking those rules. Would you help somebody who was walking on the side of the road at 3 a.m. even though it would be possible he MIGHT harm you? Cuz God would want you to. Would you claim your faith if somebody had a gun to your head? Have you ever come across a murderer? You seek the death penalty out of revenge, it is easy to kill somebody you don’t know, what if it was your brother on deathrow? In all reality it is your brother, and yet you would be willing to turn your back on him because you don’t know him. It’s not right.
There is no proven case where an innocent person has been executed in America since the death penalty was reinstated.