Blogs Tagged With death-penalty options | rated: b

  • Team post with Electron Joy!

    So my brothers and I used to post on xanga together when we were in the same town. Since the younger one is visiting, we'll try something similar. If @electronjoy wakes up any time soon, which is unlikely. During summer vacations, I would always say, "Daniel never sees the sun in the eastern sky.…

  • Human Euthanasia: Could It Be a Good Thing?

    Euthanasia of animals in controversial, even among those who love animals more than anything else. The reason it gets done is because there aren't enough homes for all of the lovely animals in this world, and because urban environments allow populations of animals to grow past carrying capacity,…

  • Isn't It Odd?

    The following is taken from CommonPrayer.net Death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal has asked, “Isn’t it odd that Christendom —  that huge body of humankind that claims spiritual descent from the Jewish carpenter of Nazareth —  claims to pray to and ador…

  • A Short Rant on the Death Penalty

    There is no way to accept the grace of God, which is shown through Jesus Christ dying for us who were his enemies, while we are willing to call for, support, or be indifferent towards the killing of our "enemies" even when done by the state. Forgiveness is lived out with merciful action or it is no…

  • Anxious

    For those of you who don't know who Troy Davis is, it must seem like a whole lot of confusion in Georgia today. He's been scheduled to be executed today for a crime the prosecutors could not even link him to. A majority of the eyewitnesses that testified against him recanted their statements, yet hi…

  • Edit: Jaycee Dugard Effects

    Edit: In case some of you don't know, Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped at the age of 11 when she was going to school. She was kept in the backyard of the her sex predator for 18 years where she gave birth to 2 girls. The guy was a pedophile as you should have guessed by now and he was helped by his…

  • The Death Penalty

    “Many that live deserve death, and many that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement, for even the very wise cannot see all ends.” The last thing anyone could ever call me is a “bleeding heart”, but I have some d…

  • Abolishing the Death Penalty: What Do You Think?

    "If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed." Not all the 50 states of America have the death penalty. But other countries like China, Iran and Saudi Arabia do practice this. It's time for it to be abolished.

  • Punishment

    The Kid strolled in tonight at 9:50 p.m. after spending the entire day incommunicado until 9 p.m. She called then to inquire as to when we wanted her home and to ask how she was getting home. It's possible that I did not contain my anger quite as completely as I would have liked. When she came ho…

  • Fiat Justitia

    From the Chicago Tribune: Serial killer Andre Crawford was spared the death penalty today for the murders and rapes of 11 women on Chicago's South Side. Claudia Robinson, who still suffers from physical injuries received in the brutal beating and rape, said she never imagined the jury would spa…