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Originally Posted by MorriganTait
I am opposed to the death penalty in all cases because I feel it is morally wrong, unfairly applied, fraught with error, and a waste of taxpayer money and time. Our focus should be on educating young people and engaging in the lives of our poorest and most disadvantaged Americans to prevent the crimes from occurring in the first place, and actively rehabilitating lower level offenders to help prevent further crimes. Very few death penaltiy cases apply to individuals who did not in some way slip through the cracks many times before. The death penalty, I feel, is a declaration of our ultimate failure to love one another.
Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' Matthew 22:37-39
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Well said!!
This is another reason why I'm against Death Penalty is because some innocent people were put to death, and judges inculding juries etc can be wrong when they think this person acutally did it when it turn out they're innocent all along, beside some people use death penalty out of anger, and that shouldn't be the case either, I don't have a stomach for it nor want to see anyone put to death, that just me even I respect God and believe in Him and what it says in the Bible, but govenment can be wrong in alot of things, yet it cause people to take the death penalty a bit too far....