As someone who holds that there are moral absolutes, I philosophically view abortion as morally wrong, and politically tend to lean to the right on this issue. That being said I absolutely support the death penalty for many who have murdered other people, especially mass murderers, in particularly when we KNOW definitively that the person is guilty (many of these school shooters come to mind). Heck if the system looked for volunteers to put these scum out of their misery I would gladly sign up!
What I find interesting though are those who fully support the termination of an innocent unborn child’s life yet are then opposed to the death penalty for those who commit cold blooded callous murder. I personally find that perplexing. Thoughts?
If one oppose abortion and support the death penalty, then s/he is not a pro-life purist. Instead s/he is anti-abortion and pro-death-penalty. With an array of arguments and principles behind those issues, it’s not a surprise to me that people can support that mix. And I fully understand the arguments that arrive at that mix.
To answer the question in the thread title, my perspective on someone with that mix of positions is that I disagree with his/her position on the death penalty. Nothing more to say on that.
For starters convicted cop killers should be swung from a gallows behind the Courthouse within 15 minutes of the judge dropping his gavel.
Next, those convicted of killing children.
I know I know “we’ve moved on as a society” and blah blah blah.
The hangman’s noose, Old Sparky, the gas chamber and firing squads are deterrents that are gone. Look around, is there a need for a deterrent to prevent killers from committing capital murder?
The premise that the death penalty is a detterent is ludicrious. It misunderstands murder entirely.
The idea that a would-be murderer would change his mind, and decide not to kill his intended victim because he could get the death penalty is asinine - utterly disconnected from reality.
It shouldn’t be perplexing. What makes us human is consciousness. The human experience. At some point fetuses get to the point where they have all systems capable of experiencing that. I support a woman’s right to choose, for any reason, up until that point.
I also do not support the death penalty. Sometimes death is easier the living with that guilt for 30 years.
To support the death penalty is to trust the government with the power to legally kill.
How can you have such faith in the courts here, and argue that every conviction or acquittal that doesn’t go your way is because D.C. juries are biased in other threads?
