Would you like to see the complete abolition of torture and the death penalty?

Question

Recently I signed the petition "Worldwide Outlawing and Abrogation of the Torture and the Death Penalty" at Change.org.
If you also agree that this evil must stopped then will you sign it too?

http://www.change.org/petitions/worldwide-outlawing-and-abrogation-of-the-torture-and-the-death-penalty-weltweite-ächtung-und-aufhebung-der-folter-und-todesstrafe?share_id=HcFRtbzbvF&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition

Thankyou.

Answer 1

The death penalty has been reserved for those who are more than likely guilty of premeditated murder in the first degree. Therefore, by definition, the death penalty IS premeditated murder in the first degree. And, as the United States HAS executed men who DNA evidence PROVED were innocent of the crime of murder-----the government of the United States is directly involved in state sanctioned murder.

Answer 2

I support the death penalty, but am completely against torture to any human or animal.

Answer 3

If your children's lives could be saved by torturing a terrorist for information then you would torture!

Have no doubts on that! If you had to pay from your pocket to imprison a murderer you would soon execute them too.

Answer 4

Torture yes. Death Penalty no. Here's why.



The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents

Dudley Sharp



The death penalty has a foundation in justice and it spares more innocent lives.



The majority populations of all countries, likely, support the death penalty for some crimes (1).



Why? Justice.



Anti death penalty arguments are either false or the pro death penalty arguments are stronger.



THE DEATH PENALTY: SAVING MORE INNOCENT LIVES



The Innocent Frauds: Standard Anti Death Penalty Strategy

and

THE DEATH PENALTY: SAVING MORE INNOCENT LIVES

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-innocent-frauds-standard-anti-death.html



OF COURSE THE DEATH PENALTY DETERS: A review of the debate

and

MURDERERS MUCH PREFER LIFE OVER EXECUTION

99.7% of murderers tell us "Give me life, not execution"

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/03/of-course-death-penalty-deters.html



Saving Costs with The Death Penalty

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/02/death-penalty-cost-saving-money.html



RACE & THE DEATH PENALTY: A REBUTTAL TO THE RACISM CLAIMS

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/07/rebuttal-death-penalty-racism-claims.html



The Death Penalty: Not a Human Rights Violation

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2006/03/20/the-death-penalty-not-a-human-rights-violation.aspx



Killing Equals Killing: The Amoral Confusion of Death Penalty Opponents

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2013/02/19/murder-and-execution--very-distinct-moral-differences--new-mexico.aspx



The Death Penalty: Neither Hatred nor Revenge

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/20/the-death-penalty-neither-hatred-nor-revenge.aspx



The Death Penalty: Mercy, Expiation, Redemption & Salvation

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-death-penalty-mercy-expiation.html





MORAL FOUNDATIONS



Immanuel Kant: "If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.". "A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral."



Pope Pius XII; "When it is a question of the execution of a man condemned to death it is then reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned of the benefit of life, in expiation of his fault, when already, by his fault, he has dispossessed himself of the right to live." 9/14/52.



John Murray: "Nothing shows the moral bankruptcy of a people or of a generation more than disregard for the sanctity of human life." "... it is this same atrophy of moral fiber that appears in the plea for the abolition of the death penalty." "It is the sanctity of life that validates the death penalty for the crime of murder. It is the sense of this sanctity that constrains the demand for the infliction of this penalty. The deeper our regard for life the firmer will be our hold upon the penal sanction which the violation of that sanctity merit." (Page 122 of Principles of Conduct).



John Locke: "A criminal who, having renounced reason... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tyger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security." And upon this is grounded the great law of Nature, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." Second Treatise of Civil Government.



Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "In killing the criminal, we destroy not so much a citizen as an enemy. The trial and judgments are proofs that he has broken the Social Contract, and so is no longer a member of the State." (The Social Contract).



Saint (& Pope) Pius V: "The just use of (executions), far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this (Fifth) Commandment which prohibits murder." "The Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent" (1566).



3200 additional pro death penalty quotes

http://prodpquotes.info/





1) 86% Death Penalty Support: Highest Ever - April 2013

World Support Remains High

95% of Murder Victim's Family Members Support Death Penalty

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/11/86-death-penalty-support-highest-ever.html



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Victim's Voices - These are the murder victims

http(COLON)//www.murdervictims.com/Voices/voices.html



Much more, upon request. [e-mail]

Answer 5

if you had a child tortured and murdered by john gacy or jeff dahmer

you wouldn't feel that way

Answer 6

No.

Answer 7

Thanks for posting this.