Maybe I missing something but are not death row should be abolished and it should be on TV mutually exclusive concepts? I don't personally see Jesus as someone who would support the death penalty and generally I don't (though I might make an exception for Irish terrorists but only in a heat of the action application of rule 5.56); I also find the rather atavistic comments of some on this forum - not this particular thread(re how after the return of Jesus as Lord there will be world wide extermination and capital punishment on a grand scale) slightly chilling - not in that its up to God to decide how He applies justice, but that human beings should rather revel in mass extermination of all those heathens)
I think perhaps your confusing my point with someone elses?
I did not say the death penalty should be done away with. In fact, I said execution of sentence should be broadcast pay-per-view, so as to send the message as to the ultimate penalty for the most egregious of offenses.
I personally don't think humans have to concern themselves with how God would execute sentence in such matters.
God exterminated the entire world by drowning everyone save for the family of Noah. The capital offense? Sinning!
And then he repopulated the planet through inbreeding sinners, as if that would somehow insure a less corrupt planet.
There are some people that don't deserve to live till they're in their 70's, for instance, while incarcerated. The expenses to house someone in State custody for say 45 years unto that old age, far exceeds the total expense for all the death row appeals that ultimately stand to achieve nothing but putting off the inevitable.
Some people are so evil death is the best thing for everyone concerned.
For instance, right now in Arizona there's a death penalty trial going on for a Mormon woman named Jodi Arias.
This woman allegedly, and she took pictures of her victim so the alleged part is a matter of legal terminology, when she in fact now admits she did this horrific crime. Prior to the State finding the camera she used to document her ex-boyfriends slaughter, she claimed two men broke into the apartment and did the deed. While she was 'lucky' enough to escape with her purse and phone. Which she never used to call 911 so as to save him from his attackers.
However, Ms.Arias excuse now is it was in self-defense because of abuse. This is a woman who stabbed her ex 29 times,slit his throat ear to ear and then shot him in the temple.
She dragged his body to the bathtub and left him there, while she fled. He was found days later in a state of decomposition by friends who were concerned he'd not been in contact.
She took pictures prior to murdering him, during, and after.
She staged the theft of the gun she used, by robbing her own grandparents of their firearm. And when she was finished the slaughter of this man, she took the knife and gun but threw the camera with the damning evidence on the sim card, into the washer with various other bits of laundry and ran it through a cycle.
She's now in a death penalty case. And if anyone asks to be put down, it's her.
This is a woman who would not stay away from Travis, her victim. Even when he broke up with her. She went so far as to crawl through a pet door so as to get into his home and would get in bed with him so that he awoke to a woman he thought he was done with.
He even asked her to move hundreds of miles away so that his sexual temptation would be abated, because she was not someone he wanted to continue in a serious relationship with nor would he ever marry her.
That is a woman that will serve no other purpose alive in a prison cell than to cost the State, and his family, grief for her continuing to be survived by tax dollars for no good reason except to grow old behind bars.
She'll never get out of prison! We should all hope.
