Too Fat to be Executed. Awww....

[Schlosser85]

That was the Old Testament. Christ came with a new covenant in which he said if someone slaps you on the right cheek let him slap you on the left. this is where the 'turn the other cheek' expression comes from.

How does "turn the other cheek" apply to murderers? You cannot "turn the other cheek" and brush off murder.

If you follow the teachings of jesus then the Death Penalty is not an option.

Personally, it's completely irrelevant to me, I just cited "eye for an eye" in response to someone else questioning whether Christianity is compatible with supporting the death penalty.

If it can't be practiced for all crimes, then it is not an appropriate punishment for any crime.

Again, equivalency. The most serious punishment, reserved for the most serious crime.

Our current system weighs crimes differently.

As it should.

Something as simple and barbaric as "eye for an eye" doesn't.

I'm sorry, but we appear to be at loggerheads. I simply don't think executing someone for the deliberate and unprovoked murder of a fellow citizen is barbaric. If they don't want to forfeit their own life, than maybe they shouldn't have stolen someone else's from them.

100% effective? I'm gonna call ******** on that.

I said it's 100% effective at "deterring" the criminal in question from ever committing another crime again. I don't think that's something you can dispute, unless you're going to argue that it's somehow possible for them to commit another crime after they've been executed.

In all seriousness, I know you are referring to the death penalty not deterring other murderers from committing murder, and as I have already acknowledged, there is no solution that will 100% eliminate murder. That's not the primary aim of capital punishment. It is punishing the murders that have already been committed with, in my opinion, the only appropriate sentence, because it is the only sentence of a severity that equals the crime.

 

[Finlandman]

Actually I can't understand whole death sentence anyway. When we have criminals already in custody, what's the point of killing them? Let's just give life sentences.