Only The US Has Moral Spine to Carry Out Death Penalty in West
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 01:52PM Typical of the British media. This Sky News Report almost got through but could not resist including just the tiniest 'hint' that the Americans are Barbarians for carrying out the death penalty. In it they highlight that it took the killer "five minutes to die" after being given a lethal injection. And their point is...? Damned if I know. Five minutes strikes me as fair enough given his appalling crimes for which he showed no remorse to the end.
The issue really is not about the manner of death. It is about justice. Armchair Western liberals are suckers for the 'victim culture' and I don't mean for the murdered victim. Only the Americans in the Western world are better at administering justice by considering the importance of just punishment for guilt above the 'human rights' of murderers.
Last night, the Washington DC killer, John Allen Muhamed, complicit in the mass murder of 10 randomly chosen US citizens back in 2002, received due punishment. As I have often said, I do not 'rejoice' in the death of a fellow human, but I do rejoice that justice has been done. God bless the Americans (at least in Virginia State) who, alone it seems in the Western world, still believe in justice.
Bring on Major Hasan, the Fort Hood Islamist terrorist killer.
And if anyone should be squeamish in taking the life of a mass murderer through due process on behalf of the community (not as revenge) stand aside. I'll do it. I would expect no less in my own case if I had commited such a crime.
Reader Comments (12)
First, all authority on earth is God-given to carry out his laws (whether it does so or not is another matters) but it clearly knocks out your odd, ultimately, heretical perception that authority is somehow NOT God-given. In the OT God actually demands that for breaking the sixth commandment and talking God-given human life through murder, that human authority take the murderers life. The Anglican Church's Reformed and distinctly biblical (though it no longer confrms to them) 39 Articles actually specifiy the God-given right for human government - His creation - to take human life where murder has taken place.
Don't know where you are being taught, but you must be better informed about the Christian faith if you don't want to make such basic errors. This is meant to help rather than chide
Your point being...?
Taking it one step further, this failure to carry out capital justice has caused many to develop a poor view of God. God is no longer treated as just, but as a gentle granddaddy. Man then is not able to properly understand his sinful condition and the consequences. Salvation for many, then, is farther away.
It seems reasonable for me to conclude that you don't believe the Bible. We have different souces of beliefs. Obviously I believe that my beliefs, because it is founded upon what I believe to be the inerrant and authoritative Word of the True God, will be vindicated in the end.
Final word on the subject - and one conundrum for you. When Christ stood before Pilate, the governor asked Jesus whether he understood that he, Pilate, had the power of life and death over him. Jesus answered Pilate thus: "You would not have this power over me if it had not been givce you by my Father in heaven". Now what do you think he meant by that? Now that should be case closed for anyone who loves the Word. I suspect the Word never is for you, however.