And this is exactly what happens when you end up forfeiting the sovereignty of your country in order to make it along nicely with the internationalist Europeans, who no longer having clout alone kowtow those around them to fulfill their agenda:
Russia's ban on the death penalty will remain when a current legal suspension expires on 1 January, the country's Constitutional Court has ruled.
It said the use of the death penalty was now impossible because Russia had signed international deals banning it.
Russian announced the moratorium in 1996 when it joined the Council of Europe, although it retains capital punishment in its criminal code.
Opinion polls suggest that a majority of Russians back the death penalty.
One recent survey showed that two-thirds of Russians backed the measure.
It said that one in four was against it, mainly because of the possibility that judges would make mistakes.
We have a measure that is largely backed by the Russian people yet will not be fulfilled because of diplomatic reasons.
Russia is a nation that fights very real crime problems, and with that they fight very real issues with the justice system.
Now the Kingpins who direct direct their crime rings from their cells are safe, and those who are multiple murderers can continue eeking out their existence in jails to murder any young, petty criminal who wants to leave the gang or who crosses them; and the serial rapists and murderers who wreck their victim's lives and the lives of their families without mercy will be able to live out there days playing chess and smoking cigarettes while the family members are haunted by the memory of these crimes.
It is no justice when a nation suffering extreme crime cannot even implement their justice system properly due to the predatory diplomacy of their neighbors.
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The Russian Orthodox Church welcomed the ruling. "Our society is strong enough to outlaw the death penalty while continuing to strongly combat crime," Father Vsevolod Chaplin said.
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The Russian Orthodox Church welcomed the ruling. "Our society is strong enough to outlaw the death penalty while continuing to strongly combat crime," Father Vsevolod Chaplin said.
Should not a country be ruled democratically?
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Verv, you seem to be upset about Russia moving closer in its policies to (most of, at least) the West.
That is not a bad thing.
The West is dying -- the future is in the East.
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“The egalitarian mania of demagogues is even more dangerous than the brutality of men in gallooned coats... Anyone who has been oppressed can get back on his feet if the oppression did not cost him his life. A man who has been equalized is physically and morally ruined." - Ernst Jünger (March 29, 1895 – February 17, 1998)
Democracy and human rights go hand in hand. And the most fundamental human right, the right to life, God-giveth that no sinful fallen man only God has the right to taketh away, supersedes all man-made political systems.
__________________ One achieves little honour if one invades another country, which has done us no harm, with force and injustice, if one rapes and burns, kills and pillages those who only wished to live in peace. It would do us greater honour if our forefathers had always been peaceful and meek, if they had been content with all the things God had given them, instead of robbing and raping others. -- Olaus Petri
I am resolving now never to hold rancor, however justified it might be, toward a group of people, whatever their race, religion, conviction, prejudices, errors. -- Irčne Némirovsky
Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief. -- Martin Luther
The Russian Orthodox Church welcomed the ruling. "Our society is strong enough to outlaw the death penalty while continuing to strongly combat crime," Father Vsevolod Chaplin said.
Thanks for posting this
Orthodox countries tend to use the death penalty most sparingly; one who is dead cannot repent.
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Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man.
He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried;
And He rose on the third day, according to the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father;
And He will come again with glory to judge the living and dead. His kingdom shall have no end.
And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Creator of life, Who proceeds from the Father, Who together with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, Who spoke through the prophets.
In one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
I look for the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the age to come.
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Orthodox countries tend to use the death penalty most sparingly; one who is dead cannot repent.
You are most welcome. My country is officially Orthodox as well as Lutheran, we do not have death penalty over here and barely no support for introducing death penalty to our legal system.
And I fully agree that we do not know and cannot know God's plan for even the worst of sinners among us, therefore the judgment does not belong to us. One sinner is no more fit to judge a fellow sinner in matters of life and death than one murderer is fit to judge a fellow murderer. If one trusts in God's final judgment and that it will be the most just and righteous judgment ever, then one does not feel the need to seek petty temporal revenge in this life the need for which rises from our own sinful nature. Our Good Lord Jesus Christ showed us a better way, the way of forgiveness. If He can forgive our sins, how is it that we cannot supposedly forgive our fellow sinners' sins?
Originally Posted by Matt 6:14-15
For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Originally Posted by Matt 7:2
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
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__________________ One achieves little honour if one invades another country, which has done us no harm, with force and injustice, if one rapes and burns, kills and pillages those who only wished to live in peace. It would do us greater honour if our forefathers had always been peaceful and meek, if they had been content with all the things God had given them, instead of robbing and raping others. -- Olaus Petri
I am resolving now never to hold rancor, however justified it might be, toward a group of people, whatever their race, religion, conviction, prejudices, errors. -- Irčne Némirovsky
Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief. -- Martin Luther
You are most welcome. My country is officially Orthodox as well as Lutheran, we do not have death penalty over here and barely no support for introducing death penalty to our legal system.
And I fully agree that we do not know and cannot know God's plan for even the worst of sinners among us, therefore the judgment does not belong to us. One sinner is no more fit to judge a fellow sinner in matters of life and death than one murderer is fit to judge a fellow murderer. If one trusts in God's final judgment and that it will be the most just and righteous judgment ever, then one does not feel the need to seek petty temporal revenge in this life the need for which rises from our own sinful nature. Our Good Lord Jesus Christ showed us a better way, the way of forgiveness. If He can forgive our sins, how is it that we cannot supposedly forgive our fellow sinners' sins?
Originally Posted by Matt 6:14-15
For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Originally Posted by Matt 7:2
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
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QFT
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I believe in one God, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all ages; Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten, not created, of one essence with the Father through Whom all things were made.
Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man.
He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried;
And He rose on the third day, according to the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father;
And He will come again with glory to judge the living and dead. His kingdom shall have no end.
And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Creator of life, Who proceeds from the Father, Who together with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, Who spoke through the prophets.
In one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
I look for the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the age to come.
Amen.
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