RANCE ADAMS
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Life in prison helps the soul?!?Life in prison helps the soul?!? That notion is even LESS realistic than your previous flight of fancy.
Statistics have nothing to do with the cost to execute a sentence of capital punishment, that is merely a symptom of a BROKEN SYSTEM.
Look how easy it is to fix:
the cost is legal. The appeals process. Why is it mandated? Because death sentences are given with no expectation of ever being carried out. So there's no deterrent value. And there's not nearly enough scrutiny to make sure we don't have an innocent man.
Change the circumstances under which the death penalty is a possibility. Make SURE of guilt. That removes most cases right there. Then make sure it's someone who will never be rehabilitated and accepted back into free society.
Further restrict it to someone who can never contribute to society, meaning more than paying their keep.
Someone meeting all these conditions, for a crime that deserves the death penalty to begin with, can be executed mercifully after a speedy trial for the cost of one rope Nationwide, forever.
Eliminate these people from our prison system and the souls of everybody else have a much better chance of experiencing God's goodness that leads to repentance.
Leave them where they are and they pervert everyone they come in contact with. There is a reason God gave human governments power to execute, and your concerns expressed here don't override that.
I'm not convinced you put much thought into my points and if you do, you completely mis-characterize what I say. I'ts sad if anyone thinks this temporary life of misery is worse or equal to eternal misery. An individual has more of an opportunity to repent and to stand justified in God's eyes the longer they live, just a fact. You are making arguments based upon human worldly reasoning. I'm trying to make arguments based upon God's reasoning. I personally know 1 murderer who turned to Jesus and became a preacher when he got out of prison. Also look at Paul, his example of killing Christians and then what became of him. We can't make such blanket statements that certain people are to be thrown away by executing them thus making society better. That in no way is Christ's way. Again if you want to argue economics it's a fact it costs more in America to execute someone than give them a life sentence.