What is the more Christian form of execution (i.e., carrying out capital punishment)?
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Surely Christians believe in turning the other cheek & forgiveness so shouldn't approve of capital punishment.
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Castration.\n\nThere was a time when I was against capital punishment...now I'm in favor of torture.
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I don't know if it is solely my Christianity that has my husband and I oppose capital punishment, but we both do. \nWhen do two wrongs make a right? Why does one person have the right to end another life?\n\nmy husband lost his wife and 8 year old son to  a drunk driver, and his mother was murdered 6 months later by her second husband. Neither man did one day in jail. Was that right? No. \n\nDo we have the rights to say they should have been executed? No. punished? Yes. \n\nForgiveness is a mighty hard thing sometimes. Only by the grace of God can we forgive in such cases. That is where we are, thanks for the opportunity to share...
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www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/links/dplinks.htm \nwww.probono.net/deathpenalty/index.cfm \nwww.americancatholic.org/News/DeathPenalty/default.asp \nwww.carmical.net/articles/deathpenalty.html \nwww.abanet.org/deathpenalty \njustice.uaa.alaska.edu/death/procon.html \nwww.law.cornell.edu/topics/death_penalty.html \n\namericamagazine.org/gettext.cfm?articleTypeID=1&textID=650&issueID=286 - \n\nwww.criminaljustice.org/public.nsf/freeform/DeathPenalty?OpenDocument\n\nThese are all from a simple search on "pro death penalty" which happens to be my personal view. If you don't want to die, don't commit heinous acts, THAT is my personal opinion.
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Murder-you have no right to inflict harm unto another living soul. But sin and suicide are almost equally as bad. There is always an alternative.
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I still think that a firing squad is the most humane.  It's quick, almost instantaneous, and none of the men on the squad knows who shot a real bullet or who shot a blank.  In lethal injection, the condemned convulse (just like in electrocution).  Beheading might be more accurate (the firing squad could all miss) but seems to be more of a show for the public (see French Revolution or Saudia Arabia) as a deterent.  Hanging is even less accurate (see Thrice Hung John of English lore).  I must admit though, I'm against capital punishment because of economic reasons.  The extra costs of court appeals, lethal injections (or electrocutions) upon taxpayers is much more than most people realize.
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Might be helpful to include the country next time , this is all US information..... Here is some research with links " Get to work and stop reading questions" LOL\n\n\n1) Check out their "History of the Death Penalty "section\n2) United States Courts on the death penalty\n3)Victims and the death penalty\n4)Capital Punishment, legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. Throughout history people have been put to death for various forms of wrongdoing. Methods of execution have included such practices as crucifixion, stoning, drowning, burning at the stake, impaling, and beheading. Today capital punishment is typically accomplished by lethal gas or injection, electrocution, hanging, or shooting.\n5)History of the death penalty ---Plus a chart chronicles the United State's use of the death penalty over the past four centuries.
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my state, Missouri, uses lethal injection.\n\ni can't help but think that its too good a way for some of the prisoners to die.\n\na few years back we had 3-4 black men out for a little 'fun' on a weekend evening.  they found 2 gals and a guy out walking.  they beat the hell out of the guy---i don't know if he survived the beating or not.  they raped AND beat the girls and then threw them OFF A FRIGGIN BRIDGE INTO THE MISSISSIPPI!\n\nman, that ain't right. so they're caught, becase they were BRAGGIN about it!  they are tried and convicted and spend the next 15 or so years on death row appealing their sentence.   \n\nthen when all appeals are exhausted and our governor won't issue the bastards a pardon, they are led into a little room, an iv is set up, a button is pushed and a series of three drugs are infused into the prisoner.  the first puts the bastard to sleep, the next paralyzes his breathing and the third stops his heart.   to me, this is just TOO easy a way to go after what they did to the 3 white people almost 20 years go.\n\nand of course, there were the usual gang of idiots outside the prison protesting the "unfair" and "inhumane" treatment of the prisoners.   puhleeze!\n\ni'd say lethal injection--it gets the job done and is cheap.  probably not as cheap as a bullet or a few jolts of electricity, but it works,
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I don't believe in capital punishment.  I think it's a much greater punishment to let a criminal rot in hellish prisons for endless years.  It's in no way a deterent for capital crimes.
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The Christian answer would be "Nothing! Killing people who don't believe in you or don't share the same belief system as you is perfectly ok!"
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There isn't one.  Death penalty and capital punishment are synonyms.  The first two posts are wrong.  If you don't believe me, check the link below, or look it up in a dictionary.
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Sharia law (6th century code of barbarism) tells them to kill the infidel, the unbeliever, hence the execution of christians and jews. It's amazing in the 21st century that people still adhere to barbaric laws.
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Well personally I'm opposed to the death penalty for any reason...First off as a Christian I believe Jesus taught let he without sin cast the first stone...secondly in our criminal courts the rich can afford all the expert witnesses they need while the poor are being executed...sometimes innocent because they couldn't afford a great lawyer and expert witnesses
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While Christianity feels all human life is holy and a gift from God, the Christian ethics have no problem with a person risking or giving up his life for the sake of others. This is what Jesus did. This is not considered suicide.\n\nA completely different and more complicated question is whether it is ethical to kill one person to save many. I don't think this would be ethical, "The end does not justify the means."\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Correction, more than a hundred countries still have death penalties, some still using firing squads, public hangings, stoning and three still chop off the victim's heads.\nFor Christians the problem is one of bending "Thou shall not kill."  For others it may or may not be a moral issue.\nPersonally, I do not see any moral action in killing a human to punish him or her for killing another.
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Mercifull Killing. When a guy who is seriously ill and can't be treated any further. and he/she has to live rest of its life in that condition, then this process is done. it is to stop the suffering of the patient. It was first adopted by Sweden.
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Here's the definition, hope this helps. [=\n\nCrucifixion is an ancient method of execution, where the victim was tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang there until dead. It is widely considered a not uncommon but extremely dishonorable and excruciating form of judicial execution in the Roman Empire, though similar methods were employed in other ancient cultures. Crucifixion has special significance in Christianity, which holds that Jesus was crucified but later resurrected. Because of this the Christian cross or crucifix has become the symbol of Christianity.\n\nCrucifixion was used by the Romans until about 313 AD, when Christianity became the dominant faith in Rome. However, it has been used in various places in modern times.