Funny thing is that the first 26 years of our countries existance, capital punishment was more widely accepted. DaDakota
The death penalty is really an interesting topic. I actually changed my opinion about the death penalty when I was a born again Christian. I was in religion class in high school debating the issue with others, all of whom were, at the time, less conservative than I was, yet they were all pro death penalty. I just had a hard time accepting Jesus' position on the stoning of a prostitute or turning the other cheek, etc, and at the same time accepting our own version of justice. At the time, I was ardently conservative and deeply religious, yet it seemed to me that I was always in the minority around other Christians. As I got older and began to explore other religions, it validated my anti-death penalty opinion because the Eastern religions I began to follow believed in the sacredness of sentient life. I respect everyone's opinion to believe what they will on the death penalty, but I often find it at odds with the Christian beliefs I studied, yet it is often the most conservative who support the death penalty. That just seems curious to me.
Well, I will still claim originality. I haven't read the thread except from the back-- starting with responses to your post. When I got to your original post, I PUT THE HAMMER DOWN...
I am a born again Christain and I used to believe in the death penalty. Now, as I've gotten older. (I'm still a born again Christain - interesting story but on another thread), I've changed my view. Maybe it's age?
Well, I will still claim originality. I haven't read the thread except from the back-- starting with responses to your post. When I got to your original post, I PUT THE HAMMER DOWN... But if you read it backwards, you definitely should have hit TheFreak's Alec post before reading the original.
Why do some of the people that keep mentioning how more-horrified by the event they are than others keep mentioning that they read the gruesome transcript? I, personally, am too horrified to even want to know the specifics, much less read them line by line and bring them up later (in both threads where it was posted, I had to scroll through it. Is this like rubbernecking? In all seriousness, though, if just hearing of a mother killing her five kids is so disturbing, why would you want to read it (especially since you are not on the jury so specifics are not relevant)? All it would seem to do is confirm or create images in your mind that are not needed.
true..i'm not sure why i do that. i guess sometimes you're drawn in by things you fear or don't understand the most. it's something entirely foreign to my experience...when i was a kid i was scared of ghosts and vampires and all that crap...but when I went to DisneyWorld, the first ride I wanted to get on was the Haunted Mansion...i was scared to death of it, but i was drawn to it.
Yeah, I didn't make that too clear. I was just quickly SCANNING for the original post from RM95 to highlight and reply. I wasn't reading all of the content. RM95: you have to let this age thing go.... Pretty soon you'll be too old to keep doing this!
