The death penalty.

[Alby_da_Wolf]

TheRealMafoo said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

TheRealMafoo said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

I know that if an innocent person I love were unjustly executed, I'd kill them.

Ahh, well it's good to know that you're obviously for the death penalty. You just seem to wish determining who the criminal is, were more accurate.

I agree with you.

Actually I'm almost totally against it, but I'm persuaded that those that are in favour of it should first accept that it should be applied in its strictest and strongest form, and up to its extreme consequences, first on themselves, even more appropriate on those that cite the Bible, as it's written right there that those that judge the others will be judged with the same measure (Matthew 7:2). Executing an innocent should be considered deliberately killing him, if he was innocent, it's obvious that the evidences weren't totally sure and any doubt was ignored with the intention of executing the suspect at any cost, to exact an easy and unjust revenge. And every argument I read up until now minimizing the execution of innocents made me want to puke, as it was clearly inspired by a lust for blood and vengeance at any cost, even of killing innocents, I read in those arguments no lesser homicide intent than in those that they would want to prosecute.

This said, I could maybe accept death penalty only for the most heinous crimes and only if there is 100% certainty of guilt, 0% possibility of error and no mitigating circumstances at all.

How are you "almost totally against it", when in your previous post (the part I originally quoted" you were willing to practice it.

Your against the death penalty, but are for killing someone due to there acts? Explain that please :)

Killing with my hands and against the law those that unjustly executed a person I love would be a revenge, not death penalty. While doing it according to a law would be my point that who propose a strict principle and law must accept the strictest application of them on themselves, otherwise they are in bad faith. For public officials guilty of such irreparable errors, in ancient Greece, but also in the late Middle ages, they inflicted the choice between going into exile and being stripped of all their possessions or being executed (Dante Alighieri himself was sentenced to this), maybe they were a lot less hypocritical than current death penalty advocates.