Death Penalty; For or Against?

Death Penalty; For or Against?

Admittedly, as a lot of Americans are, I am torn on this issue. The death penalty is complicated. Especially for those of us who have faith, it’s very complicated.

Should we live by “Thou shalt not kill” or is it “Thou shall not murder”? Or maybe we live our lives believing in “An eye for an eye,” see…complicated. For me personally, I believe those who have done unspeakable crimes, especially against children, deserve to die.

However, living the rest of your life in a tiny cold box,being abused by the worst of the worst until you’re dead, may end being harder punishment.

And then there are those who have later been found innocent after being put to death. I have always been angered and hurt when I have been falsely accused of something, even a small something. You can only imagine being wrongly convicted of a heinous crime and sent to death row to be executed?

 It happens far more often than you might think. If you click on the link, you can see some of the people that have been freed, helped for free by The Innocence Project. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, there has been  2,316 exonerations, that’s more than 20,440 years lost to innocent people

And so, do we just believe that there is an acceptable amount of collateral damage for the safety of the society at large?

Well what about if that collateral is you? Don’t the rights and lives of the individual in a society matter just as much, or even more, than the society as a whole? That is one of the biggest differences between conservatives or libertarians and the Liberal left.

This man Joseph Garcia Is scheduled to be executed Today December 4th 2018. Joseph Garcia and six other inmates escaped from the Texas Department of Corrections Connally Unit in Kenedy on Dec. 13, 2000 (They were called “The Texas 7”).

 He was already a felon, serving a 50-year sentence for a murder in San Antonio.  Garcia was already a bad guy, but in this case he was only an accomplice, should that matter during sentencing?

He neither killed anyone nor intended or expected that a killing would take place.

But someone was killed, a police officer who was only doing his job, Aubrey Hawkins. Garcia said he wasn’t even outside when the others fired at the police and never even fired the gun that he had.

Because of Texas Law any participant in a crime where a murder takes place can be charged and executed for it. Which again is controversial and complicated.

But then you have someone like Timothy McVeigh, Ted Bundy or Charles Manson who were serial killers and mass murderers. They each committed horrendous and unspeakable crimes against their fellow man. That doesn’t seem too complicated to me, they all deserved death.

So where do we draw the line? How do we in 2018 choose who dies and who doesn’t. Comment below and let us hear your thoughts.

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