Given that the first ideals of the US provide that no person can be deprived of life, of liberty, and of justice, perhaps the death penalty isn't such a good idea.
A life sentenced to justifiable confinement might not be as clement a punishment as many seem to believe.
To sentence a lawless man to live in recluse or with others of the same regimen, and force him to live the rest of his life withering with the agonizing and unappealing bulk of nerve and muscle that he calls a mind as it dwells on his crime, is perhaps the greatest punishment.
Consider the touchy realitiy of suicide. When a man will intentionally kill himself as a resolution, he has attested to the idea that death is "the easy way out." To simply wither in a prolonged and painful life is too much to bear.
Life imprisonment may also provide an innocent man, wrongly accused of criminal misanthropy, a second chance.
Adversely, the death penalty, by virtue of the Christian faith, condemns the criminal man to hell, thus maintaining an eternal punishment, as opposed to an internal punishment.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
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