Tell me.. What do you think worse.. To be imprisoned, day after day, in a jail of criminals. Forced to work without much pay, no good food as you would have when freed. To know you will never see outside of a set of walls for the rest of your life.. or to have a quick second of pain if there is any (not sure if there is on injection. never had to witness one)
I believe that conservatives are for the death penalty because they believe God will take care of it in the afterlife. But that may not be true. Think about this for a second. If Christianity is false, and there is no Heaven and Hell. Then you are basicly just giving the criminal an easy way out. To live in walls till you die of age or something would be much worse then to be killed. I believe murderers should be treated that way, and not get an easy way out.
Another thing. God wrote in the Commandments that Thou Shall Not Kill. By death penalty, you are killing someone for killing others. God is the one who is suppost the deal the punishment for the sins that are not forgiven. The best we can do for the christian god would be to hold that person till god takes him and deals his/her punishment.
The Death Penalty commits a sin. To kill another person, for killing someone. You are making yourself guilty of the crime you are punishing.
To deal the death penalty, is to tell God you want to do his/her job. If when you die, you simply disappear and are no longer existant, they will not have been punished. In fact, you have released them from the punishment of living in one place and never leaving for your life.
Christianity should see the life sentence on a cold murder as Gods Death Row. That is why I do not understand why Christianity are for the Death Penalty. Gods Death Row. And if God does not exist, at least a punishment is placed.

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