tenoreitaliano
Neo-classical composer/singer/actor
The opera is absolutely cathartically gut wrenching. Sister Helen singing "He will gather us around" at the end gave me chills.
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If she isnt concerned with children in the womb and actively misconstrues the murderers stories on death penalty - then she is a hypocrite on both counts.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
She has accompanied six men to their deaths. In doing so, she began to suspect that some of those executed were not guilty. This realization inspired her second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, which was released by Random House in December of 2004.
Many, including myself view as very hypocritical, people who advocate pro life views for unborn babies while support or are agnostic of the Death Penalty...
The Catholic Church teaches that the death penalty may be used in rare cases.
In all, it's to protect the life of innocent people, including guards, prison staff and other inmates, from a ruthless killer.
As it was pointed out, one of the people Sr Projean advocated against the death penalty for, had committed murder and was convicted. He then killed another prisoner while doing time for that murder, which he go a lesser sentence because he plea bargained. Once released, he then raped and murdered again.
To allow this man to live, he would surely have harmed other people even while doing time in prison.
In general, we should not use the death penalty, but when a convicted murderer continues to physically hurt people while in jail, sorry, to not put him to death is immoral.
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Jim
The Catholic Church teaches that the death penalty may be used in rare cases.
In all, it's to protect the life of innocent people, including guards, prison staff and other inmates, from a ruthless killer.
As it was pointed out, one of the people Sr Projean advocated against the death penalty for, had committed murder and was convicted. He then killed another prisoner while doing time for that murder, which he go a lesser sentence because he plea bargained. Once released, he then raped and murdered again.
To allow this man to live, he would surely have harmed other people even while doing time in prison.
In general, we should not use the death penalty, but when a convicted murderer continues to physically hurt people while in jail, sorry, to not put him to death is immoral.
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Jim
very trueState sponsored murder can never be justified in developed socitites in my view...
State sponsored murder can never be justified in developed societies in my view...
very true
this is not like the Old West, we have law and order, we have a stable society, we do not HAVE to put people to death anymore.
the USA has some of the most liberal abortion laws and we use the death penalty more then any other developed nation, with Japan as the only other "first world nation" to have capital punishment.
Egypt, Chine and India are regional powers but are not counted as "first world"
Japan executes only about 2 or 3 people a year
Capital punishment in Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Executions by Year | Death Penalty Information Center
we have three times the population of Japan but exicute close to twenty times as many people
and I hate to sound xenophobic or anything, but look at a list of countries that have the death penalty and ask yourself if you want to be in that "club"
Of course Japan has an entire different philosophy in how they incarcerate prisoners.
Cons don't get to terrorize other convicts, guards and prison staff.
They're not allowed to run gangs while doing time.
They're not allowed to throw feces and sperm at guards and staff.
They're not allowed to have cable TV, weight-lifting gyms and ACLU advocates trying to get them out of prison, because they're reformed.
The US prison system is in chaos. If only we'd admit it.
Jim
but I do not think we need to kill people in order to clean up this chaos
we need systems in place, teaching job skills to non-violent criminals, I visited a minimum security prison that showed inmates how to work in the meat packing industry, I was in arms reach of prisoners with carving knives and meat hooks, and I did not feel afraid for a moment, they were non-violent criminals and they were working in the BEST paying prison job in the state of Ohio.
The idea that inmates get to use the internet is silly
we can have prison reform without killing people.
the point of my telling the story of the men working on cutting up sides of beef was to show that not all prisoners have to be treated the sameWe're talking about convicts who are doing life terms, verses using the death penalty. These convicts will never get out to use the trades they would learn in prison, and they know it. They have nothing to loose killing another convict or guard.
I think he was objecting to your use of equating the execution of violent criminals with "state murder"Of course not...
Of course not...