Kyle Simplot: A pro-life view of capital punishment
But wait. This wasn’t the announcement of some new wonder drug that would cure a deadly disease; it was the announcement that the state of Ohio has improved its method of putting felons to death. It wasn’t too good at it recently. In fact, after two horrifying hours of trying, they returned a traumatized inmate back to his cell. But not to worry: Practice makes perfect, and they got it right this time.
The mother, sister and brother of the inmate’s victim, Tami Engstrom, applauded as the warden announced the time of death. “Rock on,” said Engstrom’s sister a moment earlier. “That was too easy,” another said.
I have two sons, two daughters and a young grandson, each of whom I care about deeply. If some deranged person were to murder any one of them, I know that I, too, would be as enraged as the Engstroms. But blood lust does not make it right to rejoice at yet another death.
Let me be clear. The man deserves to die, but we aren’t talking about deserving. We are talking about following up a murder with yet another killing.
We invented the phrase “humane execution” to make us to feel better about putting people to death. For the state to put someone to death, even if labeled “legal,” the whole scene is inherently barbaric. With all the pro-life rhetoric against the abortion of a fetus, where is the outcry against capital punishment? If you really want the murderer to suffer, lock him up for the rest of his life with all that time to think about the life he took.
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This man has a few things right and a few things wrong, as it usually turns out. Now while pro-lifers are mainly seen at abortion mills that doesn't mean that we aren't also going up against the Capital Punishment. The reason you don't hear as much of those protests is because the whole worlds trying to say it's the woman's right to choose wether or not to abort their child. While it may be their choice most of the time the moms have no real choice in the matter because the mom, dad, boyfriend, husband almost any one who could be affected by the baby being born that doesn't want it is going to push her to get ride of it. You never see a woman with another woman her age going into an abortion mill there almost always accompanied by a man or some other female figure in their life. The people going to the prisons or going to the capital and saying what they think about Capital punishment, they are just as pro-life as those people standing and praying in front of the abortion mill (as long as that person is also against abortion).
And how can he say that the man deserved to die? He didn't know him, he didn't seem to know his charges. And who are we to judge if someone should die or not? A life for a life may seem to balance the scale to you, but you killed someone making it evan for them killing someone. How does that evan it out when you have killed someone dear to someone out there? No one should die buy human hands, only natural death should happen, but that can only happen when we the people stop wanting the blood shed of thousands, stop wanting more land and just dealing with what we have. Someone once told me that the who population of the US could all fit inside of Texas, yes we'd all be a little squished if we did do that, but the point is, is that we don't need to have the biggest house or the biggest yard to fit that pool you've always wanted. The main two reasons behind abortion is racism and "over population" (which is not evan close to true). So when we finally no longer need to want things then most likely the need for steeling will go down and for killing, thus getting rid of Capital Punishment. But since that isn't coming anytime soon, we'll have to go with it's just not working on the whole life for a life because when you kill someone that gives someone else that ability to kill you and then it goes on forever. It's a vicious cycle that I would recommend staying out of.
