Court Sentences Gunman To Execution

[EyesWideOpen]

Capital punishment is wrong and barbaric no matter the crime. It will be a great day when Thailand join the ranks of countries that abolishes the death sentence.

I disagree. One of the greatest thinkers mankind has ever produced, Thomas Jefferson, felt that in certain

cases capital punishment was indeed the correct course of action.

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendVIIIs10.html

"Whereas it frequently happens that wicked and dissolute men resigning themselves to the dominion of inordinate passions, commit violations on the lives, liberties and property of others, and, the secure enjoyment of these having principally induced men to enter into society, government would be defective in it's principal purpose were it not to restrain such criminal acts, by inflicting due punishments on those who perpetrate them."

"If any person commit Petty treason, or a husband murder his wife, a parent his child, or a child his parent, he shall suffer death by hanging, and his body be delivered to Anatomists to be dissected."

[hawker9000]

Oh, down deep, it's a matter of not having the moral fortitude to own up to the fact that society MUST carry out such executions, and yes, that blood is on the hands of the citizenry. Not that that's a bad thing, or at least not the worst thing. The bleeding hearts don't get that it's either the blood of the murderers, or the blood of their victims, that they must end up having on their hands. Having to make the choice here, I'd MUCH rather have the blood of hundreds of vile perps on my hands than that of even one of their victims.

[Rockhopper]

Capital punishment is wrong and barbaric no matter the crime. It will be a great day when Thailand join the ranks of countries that abolishes the death sentence.

Those that think capital punishment is wrong and barbaric must also condone murder. If one is not civilized enough to take the life of a murderer then one is willing to accept murder as a free crime!

So because I don't condone the talking of life I therefore condone the taking of life. That's basically what you are saying.

I've seen some crazy posts on this place before but this tops the lot.

That is NOT what I'm saying. Your reasoning is correct but foolish. Yes, you condone the taking of a life by a murderer by not taking the life of the one committing the murder. You are saying, in effect, "Go kill someone, it's ok, we will let YOU live."

Edited February 22, 2014 by Rockhopper