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«There are substantial issues relating to jury selection,» Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told Business Insider.

There are a lot of people who are opposed to the death penalty not because they think no one ever deserves to die for their crimes, but because they think the government shouldn't have the power to hand out such a punishment, even when that punishment is justified.

Letterman asked about Bush's capital punishment record in Texas, whether there was a «circumstance you can imagine that might change your view of capital punishment» and is there were any statistics to show that the death penalty deterred crime.

Before we get into why whites are so supportive of the death penalty, it's important to remember this: There's no separating capital punishment from its role, in part, as a tool of racial control.

1500 years of emperors and priest forcing belief under penalty of death, and there'd be a billion faithful worshipers of Mullet Man lol just lol.

And they could have, contrary to the Gospels — there were plenty of Jewish laws that prescribed the death penalty.

RIGHT,, there will NOT be a death penalty..

And The Ten Commandments make clear that «Thou shalt not kill» — there is no clause for retribution towards terrorists or the death penalty or anything of the sort.

There are Christians in the US who think heresy and blasphemy should carry the death penalty, because it says so in the Bible.

There is some behavior that some people find moral and others find immoral — abortion or the death penalty, for example.

Although it is still considered sinful, under the new covenant of grace, there is no longer a penalty of death.

We might question whether execution is always the most effective and fair means toward the end of protecting its citizens, and there may be many who misunderstand the purpose of the death penalty, construing it to be more than it really is.

There may be a case for demanding a higher standard of proof before imposing the death penalty, but the right to impose it has never been abrogated.

The Delaware court found that a jury not only must decide whether there were «aggravating circumstances» that could justify a death penalty, but also must find, «unanimously and beyond a reasonable doubt,» that such aggravating factors outweigh any mitigating circumstances — the critical determination in imposing a death sentence.

There are passages in which God calls for the death penalty, including Genesis 9:6, Exodus 21:12 - 14, Numbers 35:30 and Deuteronomy 17:6, Wegener said.

There is no such thing as legalized murder, and to assert such is to indulge in the irrational, sensationalist rhetoric which unfortunately so degrades contemporary debate on the death penalty.

You'll notice, for instance, that he's not out there campaigning on an «abolish the death penalty» platform.

If Norway does not have a death penalty, then there is always the «oops» accident.

There are of course further issues with capital punishment, like the number of innocent people who have been executed by our gov «t. I would think anyone on the «sanct!ty of life» bandwagon would necessarily be against the death penalty for that reason alone.

religion is nothing else than politics and power, just in the original form prior to the advent of books... so given that in the US there still is the death penalty..

If there is any chance that 1 innocent person is put to death due to human error, I will not support the death penalty.

The «Americans» (male) only believe in putting people to death when it comes to Death Row, then they toss the teachings of Jesus out the window, Thats how screwed up this country is 75 % believe there should be a Death Penalty, thats how we roll in the middle ages mind death when it comes to Death Row, then they toss the teachings of Jesus out the window, Thats how screwed up this country is 75 % believe there should be a Death Penalty, thats how we roll in the middle ages mind Death Row, then they toss the teachings of Jesus out the window, Thats how screwed up this country is 75 % believe there should be a Death Penalty, thats how we roll in the middle ages mind Death Penalty, thats how we roll in the middle ages mind sets.

Social critic Ernest van den Haag argues that any attempt to establish the moral wrongness of the death penalty must show that no crime ever deserves capital punishment; that is, he says, opponents of capital punishment must disprove the contention that there at least some convicted criminals who morally deserve execution.

And as long as you have the death penalty at all, there will always be political pressure to use it more, and pressure upon prosecutors to seek it, and get death penalty convictions — actual innocence be damned.

I could go on and on about this, but here's the point: There are numerous flaws with the idea that the death of Jesus paid the penalty for our sins or satisfied the wrath of God.

It is also glaringly obvious that — to put it mildly — there is a tension between the pope's words on subjects such as the death penalty, and the doctrine of the Church.

7a)[states] that a Sanhedrin that kills (gives the death penalty) once in seven years (R. Eleazer b. Azariah said: once in 70 years) is called «bloody» (ḥovlanit, the term «ḥovel» generally implying a type of injury in which there is blood).»

Thats one reason we don't have the death penalty, because while there's life there is hope.

There is, moreover, no reason to have any confidence that making a media event of an execution will engender clear and careful thought about the meaning of the death penalty.

There is no justification to assume any penalty for injury in 20:21 as it is clear a life / death law.

There is no evidence that the death penalty deters capital crimes.

If there is no evidence, then angry revenge must be recognized as the only motive for the death penalty, and that is beneath the behavior of a just and humane society.

In the discussion about the death penalty, there is the ultimate moral issue of the right to take life, and whether even the state has this right.

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At the end of the day I think there are a lot of reasons to be against the death penalty, but for a Christian who believes that Jesus died to spare us from death and this idea of grace or as Scripture says «mercy triumphs over judgement.»

Others view the death penalty as barbaric, expensive and too extreme due to the fact that there could be mistakes.

This is important because there are folks who are for the death penalty in principle, but they're against the death penalty in practice (because they look at how broken the system is in our country.)

So long as the death penalty exists, there are certain to be others, for every judicial procedure — however meticulous, however compassed about with safeguards — must be carried out by fallible human beings.

I doubt that there is much sentiment in favor of restoring the death penalty in the U.S. for such offenses.

There is, however, another argument against the death penalty which I find compelling — that based on the imperfection of judicial procedure.

I remember a conversation I had with a Hindu co-worker who thought Christianity was opposed to the death penalty and I had to explain to him there were two basically two views on it.

Then there's also the issue of what crimes we give the death penalty to.

Lastly, there's also the whole «punishing people who didn't do anything» aspect of giving the death penalty to to a whole program when something happens.

Thomas is very left - wing but was at pains during last month's appearance at the Latitude Festival appearance to claim his audience isn't full of stereotypical bleeding - heart liberals, pointing out that there had been substantial support for bringing back the death penalty at earlier shows.

@ Philipp yeah, German leading UE made up some values (what is death penalty doing there?)

So, not having the death penalty saves lives (note that studies have shown that there is no deterrence effect from having the death; murder rates are not lowered by virtue of having the death penalty).

«I remember a number of issues in the past where there was strong public support — the death penalty — the speaker opposed it... It's not about governing from the polls, it's about doing what you think is the correct thing to do.»

There is an observable trend towards the abolition of the death penalty in Africa.

In 1964, the last year the death penalty was in force, there were 296 homicides in England and Wales, and the homicide rate had consistently fallen since the end of the Second World War.

The European rejection of the death penalty, which advocates of abolishing the death penalty in the United States cite as evidence of an emerging international consensus that ought to influence our Supreme Court, is related both to the past overuse of it by European nations (think of the executions for petty larceny in eighteenth - century England, the Reign of Terror in France, and the rampant employment of the death penalty by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) and to the less democratic cast of European politics, which makes elite opinion more likely to override public opinion there than in the United States [emboldening mine].