Thursday, September 22, 2011

DEATH PENALTY

BIBLICAL COMMANDMENT" "THOU SHALT NOT KILL"

Why is it that the religious folks often invoke the COMMANDMENTS, but hypocritically honor them mostly in the breach?

For instance, the death penalty. The religious folks need to remember the Biblical quote, "Vengeance is Mine saith the Lord".

There have been many cases of innocent people being punished by the State with the death penalty. The justice system with all it's propensities for error should realize that state sanctioned killing may often be an egregious error that cannot in any way be rectified.

In a purely monetary sense, it often costs more to kill the convicted than it does to keep them in prison for life. May we say the the death penalty is not a fiscally responsible policy?

What to do, what to do?

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