Death Penalty & Blood Letting for Pure Evil

Revenge may not justify capital punishment, but deterrence, justice & Biblical precedent might? AG Bondi just directed prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione who killed an exec in premeditated cold blood. Wouldn’t his blood be on his own hands?

As often the case, the devil can be in the details and that’s why the US Supreme Court has set up in a long series of decisions narrow circumstances in which capital punishment passes Constitutional muster. That is, primarily because it’s not considered “Cruel & Unusual Punishment” under the 8th Amendment. Justice has always condoned murder in self-defense and while fighting wars. Progressives seem willing to go to hell to defend the “right” to abort an unborn baby. And if not Justice, then, common sense as well history has suggested that people who think they can get away with murder will; hence, the deterrence factor invariably comes into play for many of us.

Speaking of history, what about God’s general abhorrence of violence and the New Testament’s rejection of the ancient “Eye for an Eye” rule of thumb? Well, by the end of the Civil War, Lincoln had concluded that upwards of 700,000 murdered soldiers was a Divine judgment for the sin of slavery. And, the Father let His only begotten Son be crucified for the forgiveness of all men’s sins. Might not it follow, then, that pure evil here on earth may righteously be put to bed (six feet under) by society’s hang man’s rope?

Davd Soul