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Dec 19, 2005 at 14:59 o\clock

THE DEATH PENALTY

All over the world, to kill in cold blood is murder.

To hire someone to kill on your behalf is also murder.

Governments have the right to govern us, but not to kill us.

To execute is to kill in cold blood, and is therefore murder, so the death penalty is murder by the state.

If the state executioner kills on your behalf, with your agreement, you also are guilty of murder. 

Civilised countries throughout the world no longer have the death penalty

Last year, 59 people were executed in the USA, a figure only surpassed by those enlightened countries China and Iran, while in the 30 odd countries of Europe, the death penalty was used not once.

From the religious point of view, surely only God has the right to give life or to take it, the first Commandment is Thou shall not kill. An eye for an eye is not the same as a life for a life.

 

Comments for this entry:

  1. insider2 wrote at Dec 19, 2005 at 17:23 o\clock:\"Vengeance is mine\", saith the Lord. (Romans 12:19)

    It\'s strange that most of the people who are violently opposed to abortion on the basis that it is killing are the same people who strongly support the death penalty.
  2. insider2 wrote at Dec 21, 2005 at 22:27 o\clock:Stand by for January 16th/17th when California will kill a 76-year-old blind man with a weak heart. Why don\'t they just creep quietly into his cell and burst a balloon! The attorney general of California has already spoken out against clemency for this wretched soul.
  3. jamryn wrote at Dec 23, 2005 at 16:44 o\clock:A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU....

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