Shooting on Texas Tech's campus...

[Zubaz]

If you hold to a Judeo/Christian worldview, it is very clear that God has given humans the authority to take away life in certain circumstances.

There are a lot of very smart theologians that disagree strongly with this. Regardless, it's not exclusive to the Judeo-Christian worldview. It's more a natural rights thing.

 

[SwissArmyFrog]

There are a lot of very smart theologians that disagree strongly with this.

Whoever these theologians are, in this case they are a huge minority. There are lots of very smart people that take untenable positions because (sadly) they simply don't like the alternative. It takes a lot of guts to say God has never given that authority to man when there are myriad examples of that authority being given.

Perhaps they meant it was given at one time, but that the authority has been rescinded?

 

[swimmerbabe11]

There are lots of things on this Earth that are allowable but sub optimal.

 

[Purp]

No, that does not necessarily follow. Were that true, ANY punishment for a crime could be said to be revenge because imprisonment is not necessarily seen as a deterrent in many cases.

I have always thought the imprisonment/death penalty are deterrents for a lot of people who have the opportunity to get involved with criminal activity, yet simply decide against doing so early on in their lives because of the possible consequences - death penalty being one of them. So they never have been offenders or repeat offenders and are never counted among those to whom these punishments is a deterrent, when in reality it was a very real deterrent in their decision to avoid criminal activity, altogether.

Things Bastiat would say for $1,000, Alex.

The notion that prison or the death penalty aren't deterrents wrongly assumes that the pool of people who commit crimes now would not be larger if consequences of crime were less harsh. It's a common assumption that Bastiat refers to as the "unseen."

 

[Peacefrog]

Things Bastiat would say for $1,000, Alex.

The notion that prison or the death penalty aren't deterrents wrongly assumes that the pool of people who commit crimes now would not be larger if consequences of crime were less harsh. It's a common assumption that Bastiat refers to as the "unseen."

 

[SwissArmyFrog]

Things Bastiat would say...

Bast...wait...you called me a wut???

 

[Froglaw]

100% agree. I hate the many year wait period. Have someone review the case, comb over everything. If no discrepancies are found after a couple weeks, dead.

Are you two nazi's or just hoping to get invited during Spring Rush?

Do you know multiple innocent prisoners have been executed by state governments in the US?

DNA, new evidence, confessions by convicted felons, etc., exonerate the innocently convicted in multiple numbers every year.

No appeal, just kill them. Really?

How does anyone with an elementary knowledge of our judicial system make such a statement even in jest?

 

[cdsfrog]

It's an exaggeration. Make it a year not 10 years. Clearly I realize they would never do that for the very reason you said.

But the cost associated with appeals and the time delay is too much. Surely they can reduce it some.