Sentences with phrase «think death penalty»

I think the death penalty is the answer for those that commit crimes such as murder.

Perhaps counter-intuitively, and certainly contrary to what many religious people might suggest, I think the death penalty would be least problematic in a genuinely religious society.

Not exact matches

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.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

So I think more provincial courts will choose not to use the death penalty.»

If justice is to be applauded (and I think it is) and the death penalty is the appropriate level of justice for murder (and I think it is) then I'm not sure why we should not applaud a politician when they have done their duty.

Just a thought on the side: death penalty?

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

Here, I think, John Paul II's joining of abortion with the death penalty in Evangelium Vitae is exactly right: A culture that can not bring itself to rescind its license of murder in the womb is unlikely to understand the proper ways in which justice should be done.

We aren't allowed to express such thoughts without a penalty of death from this religion, but I am a bit tired of hearing people project benevolent qualities upon Islam which do not exist.

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.

Broken you are not going to hell Jesus dealt with this issue in john 8: 1 - 11 everyone thinks this was the sin of adultery but it actually on all sinners as we all are condemned under the law we all are sinners we all have sinned and will sin and the penalty for our sin is death everyone of us.But when we accept Jesus that penalty is paid for all of us if we believe in him.

Instead of being engulfed by hatred and revengeful thoughts, however, Son forgave the shooter, petitioned for his release from the death penalty, and adopted him as his son.

the Bible does judge a lot of things as deserving of the death penalty if we are to follow ur thinking it hates all humans.

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.

Ed: I think people know you for some of those issues... But probably one place with the most evident the difference between you and your church would be in the death penalty.

Researchers have asked evangelicals what they think about same - sex marriage, science, the death penalty, immigration, and, especially, whom they plan to vote for in the upcoming election.

First, I don't think the analogy comparing the death penalty to legal abortion access works.

21 (12, 15 - 17), 22 (19 f.), and 31 (15b) but thought to be an original and ancient unit, in which series the death penalty is assigned when comparable offenses in other codes are less drastically punished.13 But the death penalty in these cases serves generally to underline the moral and religious seriousness of the covenant community, and in the Israelite scale it in no wise conflicts with the pattern of law which places human life above all other values save two: the sacredness of family and the integrity of Yahweh.

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.»

Religion and the Death Penalty, which emerged from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and Millard Lind's The Sound of Sheer Silence and the Killing State offer much to extend and challenge thinking about capital punishment.

I would think, however, that Genesis 9:6 would be included on any shortlist of death - penalty verses.

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.

«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.»

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].

He's compared the position to the one his father, Mario Cuomo, held on the death penalty, pointing out a majority of New Yorkers supported the death penalty at the time, but the elder Cuomo held firm, because he thought it was the right thing to do.

I think linking the success tax to the death penalty is a very good idea.

I think we should give justice to the small number of pedestrians killed each year by dangerous cycling by applying the same or similar penalties to that of causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless, or inconsiderate, driving.

He told his interrogators what he thought of Prohibition (against, though he didn't drink), the death penalty (against, at least some of the time), and abortion (for, up to a certain point in the pregnancy).

To, [what] I thought the most sophisticated level was, one of the doctors who participated was against the death penalty; but he thought right through the problem he was faced with, he observed a couple of executions before he gave any kind of answer, and he felt that, you know, if people are going to be executed, and that's not going to be stopped, that he would help to make sure that this person doesn't suffer.

Here are five reasons why that's the wrong way to think about the death penalty.

«As a result, your approach to social relationships and the emotions you have toward role models, teachers, and peers will change the way you think about non-social concepts like math or democracy or political issues like the death penalty.

«I don't think the issue has anything to do with the death penalty or abortion,» Desetti said.

On the other hand persuasive essay about death penalty seeks to convince your readers towards a certain school of thought.

For example, you may argue against death penalty and provide reasons why you think it should be abolished.

She often turns the spotlight on us readers, forcing to think about how we think of those around us... - sandrah Do you believe in the death penalty?

Two of my best teachers were my exceedingly shy and fearful retriever and my macho terrier who thought that the death penalty was a totally appropriate way to deal with an unruly cat.

Nor do I think tobacco denialists are guilty enough to warrant the death penalty, in spite of the enormous number of deaths that resulted more or less directly from tobacco denialism.

«Do you think it would make any difference if the ABA were to change its neutral position and come out for abolishing the death penalty?»

My heart was pounding so hard you'd have thought it was a death penalty case.

For example, Stevens's thoughts on his opinion in the 2008 Baze v. Rees capital punishment case seemed, for the first time I've seen, to dispel the notion that Stevens is inching toward an absolute rejection of the death penalty as his time on the Court nears an end.

Near one of the mansion's four fireplaces, the cross-eyed governor had served decaffeinated coffee in beautiful old buffalo - themed china and asked Walters his thoughts on abortion, the death penalty, and whether he believed adhering to the actual language of the law and the original meaning of the Constitution.

The adoption of the Infanticide Act, 1922 was intended to remedy the fact that judges and juries were reticent to convict a mother who killed her newborn of murder since she necessarily faced the death penalty... It was thought to be a crime mostly committed by «illegitimate mothers» trying to hide their shame, a motive which the general opinion thought lessened the heinousness of the crime.

But I think few would - be killers, especially teenagers, would think «I won't commit this crime if there's a small chance I'll get the death penalty; but I will do it if all it means is that I'll get life without parole.»

A death penalty opponent, Feingold said: «I found a person who actually thought about it deeply, who was troubled by innocent people being sentenced to death, and who gave particular concern to how those cases were handled as a Court of Appeals judge.»

Doug, why do you think it's a good thing for the Federal Government to be pursuing the death penalty in cases where the state does not?

Turning from coverage of the detention of enemy combatants to coverage of the death penalty, at «Sentencing Law and Policy» Doug Berman offers «A few quick thoughts on Marsh.»