Reply #15: Nobody Deserves The Death Penalty [View All]

[arwalden]

If you're using the death penalty to punish the criminal then you're not punishing him. He's dead. What does he care? Punishment over. Oh... he may care up until the time that he's actually dead... but after that point, he doesn't care anymore.

Even if you're a Christian and you belie that the criminal will be punished in the "afterlife"... it's my understanding that one can enter the Kingdom of Heaven by faith alone... that one need only ask for forgiveness and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and they shall be saved and shall be allowed to enter.

Now... if you belive... that sounds like a peachy deal to me. Punishment over. Welcome to heaven!

Compared to a lifetime in prison... punishment continues... day after day. Which is the REAL punishment?

Now... if you're asking whether or not the death penalty is in reality nothing more than "REVENGE for the living"... then that's a different matter entirely.

-- Allen