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Originally posted by RACooper
Personally I couldn't give a flying f**k if he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize - I just object to the messed up logic behind the death penalty... as evidenced by hoosier's comment.
"He commited the ultimate crime four times" - By this I assume that the murder or taking of a human life is the ultimate crime (seems to be according to the Torah and Bible too)... so how is taking his life not the same damned "ultimate crime"? The freak'in hypocracy is disgusting...
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I don't think that the thought that murder is the ultimate crime really flows from the Bible. It seems more to flow from natural law. I don't know of any society that tolerates the murder of [what it perceives are] innocents. In fact, many societys where the Bible or Torah are nowhere even close to their contemplation have exactly the punishment for murder. It's heinous, and if you intrude on someone's right to exist, the state will take the same privilege with you. It's not really hippocrisy of you admit that the state plays on a different field and by a different set of rules.
-- now as to whether in an imperfect world we have the right to arbitrarily deal out that sentence as a society while we choose not to give it to some others is beyond my understanding.
For example, here in Oklahoma, where we tend to be VERY happy to give people the needle, one of the most astonishingly horrible murderers in our nation's history, Terry Nichols was sentenced to life. He had the full weight and force of the most expensive state investigation against him, it was proved beyond a reasonable doubt that he murdered over 100 people, about 1/5 of those children, while maiming hundreds more.. yet he gets life while we give the needle to some Doctor's wife that killed her hubbie for money.
The hippocrisy is not in the act itself, it's how it is dealt out. Justice should at least make the
attempt at being equal to all. In this case, where we leave life and death in the hands of a jury (12 people who are usually chosen based on their LACK of experience and education) and saying that they represent what the 'reasonable man' would do is simply laughable.
I agree with you, but for different reasons...