Death Penalty Yes / No

[Ed the Ned]

Is it Christian to approve of the Death Penalty?

Scenario: "Someone murders me! My family are Christian and decide to forgive that person. Great I have no problem with that. The problem lies is that there are a spate of murders happening in the country I live in, daily 100's of people are being murdered, raped, robbed, tortured etc. The Goverment needs to stop it. Is implementing the Death penalty accepable to Christians or not."

 

[GojuBrian]

I fully support the death penalty.

 

[jasoncran]

I fully support the death penalty.

i do as well, but my brother who's a christian and pro-life doesn't, so i avoid the death penalty topic with him

 

[turnorburn]

I've seen what happens when they coddle them, Campbell was a murderer at heart, it happened here in Washington state..

27 May 1994 – Charles Rodman Campbell

A rapist was paroled six years into a 30-year sentence only to murder his victim on release. Charles Rodman Campbell craftily bided his time and played the good little inmate only to revert to type when he was set free.

He’d originally been charged with forcing himself on Renae Wicklund and for holding a knife to her 8-month-old baby while he raped her. She and her neighbour testified against him and as a result he was put away for what should have been a lengthy sentence. Sadly it was commuted for good behaviour and Washiington agreed to let him loose. Unleashed, Campbell wasted no time in tracking Wicklund down and slashing her, her child and a neighbour’s throats in a reprisal for their original, damning testimonies.

Campbell’s was the second hanging in 30 years and he refused to cooperate, petulantly but understandably declining to get up off the floor in the run-up to his execution. According to the ‘New York Times’, he wouldn’t stand up, so Washington’s hangmen had to strap him to a board before they could fasten the noose around his neck. Despite a frenzied desire to hang onto life in the run-up, when the actual time came, Campbell died without much of a struggle, aged 39.

Yes to the death penalty...

turnorburn

 

[GojuBrian]

If not the death penalty then 3 minutes in the cage with Chuck Norris, but who could last three minutes?

 

[Aero_Hudson]

I support the death penalty but have one question that may take us off topic and if it does I will be happy to start another thread.

How can someone that is pro-life which values all life be for the death penalty? How does that work?

 

[GojuBrian]

It's pretty simple, preborn babies are innocent.

 

[Paidion]

How did the death penalty help anyone in the case of Faye Tucker, who had killed two people with a pickaxe, repented and became a true Christian as was an amazing witness in death row. A psychologist affirmed that she was psychologically incapable of killing again.

So how was Faye, society, or the families of her victims, helped in any way by putting her to death?

 

[Lee100]

It is a shame about Tucker, We should have given a second chance, But Tucker is better off where he or she is right now. It’s where I wish I was, with Jesus were they is no sorrow or crying or pain of any kind. What a place. I can hardly wait.

 

[jeremiahj13]

I dont approve of the modern day Death Penalty. I think they should get hung in the public streets.

 

[Vic C.]

I support the death penalty but have one question that may take us off topic and if it does I will be happy to start another thread.

How can someone that is pro-life which values all life be for the death penalty? How does that work?

It's pretty simple, preborn babies are innocent.

Agreed. I would add though that the unborn is innocent when it comes to braking secular laws. ;)

I support capital punishment, but I must stress there must not be a shadow of a doubt and we should apply it in the most extreme and habitual cases. Also, pray that while incarcerated and waiting for their sentence that their hearts change and they die in God's good grace.

 

[Aero_Hudson]

[quote="Aero_Hudson":gc8rb4vd]I support the death penalty but have one question that may take us off topic and if it does I will be happy to start another thread.

How can someone that is pro-life which values all life be for the death penalty? How does that work?

It's pretty simple, preborn babies are innocent.

Agreed. I would add though that the unborn is innocent when it comes to braking secular laws. ;)

I support capital punishment, but I must stress there must not be a shadow of a doubt and we should apply it in the most extreme and habitual cases. Also, pray that while incarcerated and waiting for their sentence that their hearts change and they die in God's good grace.[/quote:gc8rb4vd]

Hang on there. My understanding of pro life advocates is that all life is sacred not just the unborn. That God will determine when it is someone's time and not the abitrary nature of man's justice??

 

[Lewis]

This has been discussed on this forum a million times, I for one am for the death penalty, it is Biblical, Romans 13: 1-5, God put men in place just to do such things, Romans 13: 1-4. sometimes God will allow your life to be spared, and sometimes He will not.

 

[Vic C.]

Fair enough Aero. Who places governments into power with their laws of the land and who's to say that in cases where there is no shadow of a doubt that it isn't God's will that we carry out His judgment against, say, a habitual serial killer?

It isn't always black and white. I know people who are pro choice that detest capital punishment. To me, that is illogical; protect the guilty but kill the innocent unborn child.

Lewis, you are exaggerating; it's only been 999,999 times.

 

[Aero_Hudson]

Fair enough Aero. Who places governments into power with their laws of the land and who's to say that in cases where there is no shadow of a doubt that it isn't God's will that we carry out His judgment against, say, a habitual serial killer?

It isn't always black and white. I know people who are pro choice that detest capital punishment. To me, that is illogical; protect the guilty but kill the innocent unborn child.

Lewis, you are exaggerating; it's only been 999,999 times.

Yeah, I am playing devil's advocate on this one. I support capital punishment. I believe that evil so detestable, unthinkable and unimaginable exists. And sometimes the only answer is to purge it from this earth from whence it came.

 

[handy]

Yeah, I am playing devil's advocate on this one. I support capital punishment. I believe that evil so detestable, unthinkable and unimaginable exists. And sometimes the only answer is to purge it from this earth from whence it came.

I prefer the term "punishment" to penalty. Penalty seems weak and unfocused.

Punishment is what it is - punishing someone for what they did. And sometimes, what they did deserves death. Last summer we in Idaho were witness to the trial of Joseph Duncan. Google "Joseph Duncan", learn what he did, be fully aware that there is absolutely no doubt that he did what he did, he even video taped himself doing it, and then tell me that he shouldn't be punished by losing his life.

If there is no shadow of a doubt that someone did a horrible deed, then I have no problem with the death penality. If there is any doubt whatsoever though, we need to hold back. Too many mistakes are made in this areana.

 

[Vic C.]

I prefer the term "punishment" to penalty. Penalty seems weak and unfocused.

I like the word wage or wages.

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


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