Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“Never seem to notice”? Thanks for the issue of your imagination, Mr. Theology professor.
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What strikes me about those wishing to abolish capital sentences is that they evince no interest in suppressing social violence and no interest in addressing the defects in the criminal justice system. One might just get the idea that what they object to is punishment per se.
And one would think that had there been intentions in the New Covenant to declare capital punishment morally wrong a priori, it would have been fairly close to front and center, especially given how much a role it played in the life of the Old Covenant and the world at large.
Instead, we get modern(ist) opportunists who use the silence to do the whole “erm, ackshually, what Jesus meant was…” routine.
In the past, capital punishment was handed out like parking tickets by the Philadelphia Parking Authority in the TV show Parking Wars. This is obviously not the situation today.
Remember John Muhammad, the DC sniper? His fellow inmates were terrified of him. They WANTED him dead.
I want to know how Mr. Chapp felt about Timothy McVeigh.
I’m not so sure our Lord’s execution was “legal”, as Mr. Chapp contends. The Sanhedrin broke a number of their own laws while conducting His late-night sham trial.
CAG, good points. The Sanhedrin wanted Jesus dead and put Him through a sham trial, then threatened riots if they did not get their way. They behaved like organized crime. Jesus never threatened them. They hated Jesus and wanted him out of their way.
The death penalty has been used like any other punishment throughout history, as a means of getting rid of someone who did nothing wrong, usually by powerful but insecure tyrants.
I’m sick of these weak sisters who always whine about the death penalty. They’re sooo concerned about the murderer, rapist, sex pervert, or any other dp worthy person, but they don’t give a hoot about the victims of the same. They want to reform these folks, by giving them life în prison, with lots of theraphy. Our well ́meaning, but badly misguided Catholic do-gooders, say, let them live so they have a chance to repent. It seems to me, if they’re facing the hangman’s noose in a very short time, that will give them plenty of reasons to repent in a hurry!
the point nobody is making that even though the death of Jesus was unjust it was required for our salvation.
Bob Kurland:
Jesus the Son of God made atonement for the sins of mankind, as only a divine person could.
The millstone about the neck in the depths of the sea are Jesus Christ’s verdict on capital punishment.
A killer killing a prison guard causes the anti-capital punishment people to be co-conspirators and accomplices after the fact and before the fact of his next killing. And it has happened, We are not dealing with normal people. We are dealing with people who hate God and man…and love killing.
In the past, capital punishment was handed out like parking tickets
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Which past, where?
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One of the grant money vent pipes which agitates on this issue claims that 15,000 people have been executed in this country since 1607. There have been about 1,600 who have been executed since 1972, so that suggests 13,600 in the decades prior to that. At a consistent rate (executions per resident per year), that would be consistent with 80 executions per year ca. 1895 (at which point the population of the United States was about 70 million. Philadelphia had a population of about 1.2 million at that time, spilling over a bit into one of two or three adjacent counties.