Death by Judgment

[Jason]

In court judgments are passed like Death by Hanging, Electric Chair etc.. Is it right? Do mankind have the power to pass judgment and take ones life?

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[zecryphon_nomdiv]

In court judgments are passed like Death by Hanging, Electric Chair etc.. Is it right? Do mankind have the power to pass judgment and take ones life?

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God has instituted governments to rule over the people. Here's a link with some verses demonstrating this.

https://www.openbible.info/topics/government

 

[NewCreation435]

In court judgments are passed like Death by Hanging, Electric Chair etc.. Is it right? Do mankind have the power to pass judgment and take ones life?

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Yes, I believe the government has that right. Certainly God gave the nation of Israel that right to deal with sin and law breakers in the Old Testament with capital punishment. It seems that there are some crimes that are so horrible that the person simply doesn't deserve to live due to that behavior. But, that isn't up for individuals to decide who lives and dies but up to the government to institute laws

 

[tango]

In court judgments are passed like Death by Hanging, Electric Chair etc.. Is it right? Do mankind have the power to pass judgment and take ones life?

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My main concern with the death penalty is not the notion of the government taking the life of a particularly heinous criminal, but in the problems it causes in the event of a miscarriage of justice. That then leads to people spending years on death row, labelled as having a very high flight risk (which is hardly surprising) and the very time that notionally gives chance to exhaust all avenues of appeal seems like the kind of thing that, in many cases, does little more than drag out the process for those who lack the resources to launch appeals at all.

 

[Albion]

My main concern with the death penalty is not the notion of the government taking the life of a particularly heinous criminal, but in the problems it causes in the event of a miscarriage of justice. That then leads to people spending years on death row, labelled as having a very high flight risk (which is hardly surprising) and the very time that notionally gives chance to exhaust all avenues of appeal seems like the kind of thing that, in many cases, does little more than drag out the process for those who lack the resources to launch appeals at all.

That seems like a reasonable POV, but it doesn't address the matter of capital punishment itself, just the circumstances that often surround it in our day and age.

 

[psalms 91]

That seems like a reasonable POV, but it doesn't address the matter of capital punishment itself, just the circumstances that often surround it in our day and age.

I am against the death penelty because to many mistakes have been made in so called justice

 

[Jason]

I think death penalty should be avoided, instead the person should be in prison till his/her death. Maybe they can change or not.

 

[Josiah]

My main concern with the death penalty is not the notion of the government taking the life of a particularly heinous criminal, but in the problems it causes in the event of a miscarriage of justice. That then leads to people spending years on death row, labelled as having a very high flight risk (which is hardly surprising) and the very time that notionally gives chance to exhaust all avenues of appeal seems like the kind of thing that, in many cases, does little more than drag out the process for those who lack the resources to launch appeals at all.

I believe government has the God-given RIGHT to capitol punishment, but I personally hold (as personal opinion) that it is not MANDATED by God to do so. I personally think it is wrong and would be glad to see it end in this country. NOT the way the Governor of California does it (the voters - OVERWHELMINGLY voted to keep Capitol punishment.... the governor swore to God to uphold the laws of the state and to enforce them... then stated he would not uphold that one and was ending capitol punishment; he gets away with that because this a one-party state with the press in its pocket - there is no accountability, no opposite, no other voice in California - so laws mean little). I think the people in this democracy should decide this is an ability of the State which we do not desire it to do.

 

[tango]

I believe government has the God-given RIGHT to capitol punishment, but I personally hold (as personal opinion) that it is not MANDATED by God to do so. I personally think it is wrong and would be glad to see it end in this country. NOT the way the Governor of California does it (the voters - OVERWHELMINGLY voted to keep Capitol punishment.... the governor swore to God to uphold the laws of the state and to enforce them... then stated he would not uphold that one and was ending capitol punishment; he gets away with that because this a one-party state with the press in its pocket - there is no accountability, no opposite, no other voice in California - so laws mean little). I think the people in this democracy should decide this is an ability of the State which we do not desire it to do.

Yes, having a right isn't the same as having an obligation.

My concern isn't that it is wrong, merely that there is no room for error if the justice system got the wrong person. However long someone has been in prison they can always be released if it turns out they were innocent all along (although, in the UK at least, it was often said that a quirk of the parole system was that a person who was truly innocent and maintained their innocence wouldn't be entitled to parole on the basis they hadn't accepted responsibility for their actions). Once someone is executed that's the end of it.

Take heart - it was only 25-odd years ago that California was a deep red state, right?