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moremojo:
Your sentiment is understandable, Susie, and many would share it (I intimated a similar capacity within myself in this thread, in regard to being victimized myself [I am not a parent]). But at the risk of seeming facetious or unfeeling, I think it's important to be consistent on these things. Remember, the people who were the victims of the murderer on death row (the person whose life you and I claim to seek to preserve) were someone else's children.

I am not a Christian, but I think that Jesus showed by his example that it is better to be killed than it is to kill.

Rayn:
As a Christian, I didn't support it because I was taught to "Love your enemies."   Currently, though I don't make a very good one, I'm trying to follow the teachings of Buddha too; so I follow a Unitarian Universalist path and cannot support the Death Penalty.

Karan13:
Hey There,
               I must admit i support the Death Penalty , as you know i`m in Birmingham {second city } England , and we do not have the death penalty  at all . I was bought up in the Catholic Faith and when old enough found ` My Own Beliefs` to cion a phrase a don`t hate or turn against my faith but i have free will and question parts of it ` Thou Shall Not Kill ` is one of the ten commandments , but i disagree.
If a human being has caused such hurt , suffering , mental , physical torture , is beyond reason and empathy has killed again and again then they cannot be rehabilatated and should have their life taken for the lives they have destroyed.
I do add that this should be carried out in the most serious of crimes , especialy those occured on numerous occasions. Many child sexual abusers admit if released they will re offend , they have been released and placed back in society usually close to schools , and not always , but on numerous occasions re offended , parents live in fear as they hear rumours that they are in the area , but these people cannot be named. The victim can but not the abuser, this i hate and dissagree with. If i lived in a place where i knew people were being executed i don`t know where i would stand , but as it is i think our country needs it . The prisons are dangerously overcrowded and i feel stupid old fat cat judges in their wigs , with their old fashioned ways make the victims the guilty party, and release known crimminals back into society as they don`t know where to put them , or cannot `Find` anywhere  to put them it is a joke .

ifyoucantfixit:



        I must clarify my position..   I dont hate these people.  As Shasta said, I have no emotional feelings toward
them whatsoever.  I dont think we should do it as a form of vengeance..I dont believe in vengeance. 
        I think we need to do it for the reasons of safety, and care for individuals and society as a whole.  There
are actually people that are so tainted and polluted in themselves, that there is no chance for rehabilitation orfor
them doing anything of benefit for society.  They are, and i realize this is a bad simili, a bad apple...They need
to be gotten rid of so they wont spoil* the bunch any longer...
        One thing I am not, is vindictive.  I dont believe I have ever done a vindictive thing in my life...But you
know; if one of these people that had been allowed to return to society, would then hurt the ones I love.
I would probably do it for the first time.  If i had the chance...I am sorry I am not angelec enough for that...
If that makes me a barbarian, then I will own it...

serious crayons:
I would feel perfectly justified in killing someone who is an immediate threat to my own life or the lives of others -- for example, someone attacking my children. I also think it's OK to kill someone who's helping to kill others -- for example, not only someone who is sending Jews to death camps, but also someone fighting on behalf of someone who's sending Jews to death camps. Some wars -- not all, obviously -- are necessary, in my book.

But those are the only times I feel killing is OK.

I would like to think that, on principle, I would oppose the death penalty even for someone who had killed a loved one of mine. But perhaps I wouldn't. That's human nature. We're influenced by our emotions. But sometimes the purpose of laws is to control emotions and the baser impulses of human nature.

What about people who seem irredeemably evil? Put them away forever, I guess. It's not our job to kill them. Killing is wrong whether it's done by John Wayne Gacy or the state of Texas.

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