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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (114067)1/31/2008 6:15:26 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
"There may be some hope for you yet..... How about torturing Arabs thought to be guilty? How about the death penalty for criminals?"

Heinous acts of torture, brutal oppression, and terrorism is condemnable in all forms, across time and circumstance.

The 'death penalty' is a misnomer as far as I am concerned because death is a natural outcome of life for all of us, no less good and no more evil than birth.

Death as a Penalty for one’s conduct carries with it certain connotations: Revenge, Vendetta, pay back, Cruel Unusual, Degrading Punishment, giving up, an imperfect trial system or carrying the risk of unjustly killing someone wrongfully convicted. Any of that lacks the element of consideration and mercy in judgment that lifts human beings to noble status.

Certain crimes rising to the level of heinous conduct are irreconcilable with society and among individuals. No just treatment has ever been devised to deal with heinous criminals, leaving the treatment scholars with a dilemma. Death is the only resolute method of treatment known at this point.

There is no way to reconcile heinous criminality for the victims or with society at large. Forgiveness and mercy is a resolute determination that is so entangled with the personal elements of heinous crime that no management of the perpetrator of a heinous crime can satisfy these issues. Therefore, it is no more just to say the death penalty lacks mercy and forgiveness than it is to say that withholding death as a consequence is merciful and forgiving.
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