Posts Tagged ‘death penalty’
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Protip: If you’re using The Bible to justify your opposition to same sex marriage, don’t forget to stone to death any woman engaging in premarital sex. And not just your garden-variety stoning, either. You must gather all the people of the town at the doorstep of the woman’s father and kill her there. God is…
Read MoreRoman creativity when it came to punishing those who murdered their fathers astounds me.
If found guilty of parricide (killing your father) in ancient Rome, you’d be sewn into a leather sack with a viper, a dog, a monkey, and a rooster then flung into a body of water to drown. This form of punishment was known as poena cullei (from the Latin ‘punishment of the sack’). Poena cullei was…
Read MoreThere are many reasons why the death penalty should be abolished. But one reason should be reason enough.
Will Saletan lists six reasons why support for capital punishment is evaporating in the United States. All six are perfectly valid, and I actually agree with all of them, but really, there’s only one that matters: Innocence. Since 1973, 144 death row inmates have been exonerated of their crimes. It’s impossible to think that the…
Read MoreIdaho acknowledges that the death penalty kills innocent people.
I am opposed to the death penalty for many reasons, but chief among them is the possibility that innocent people are mistakenly put to death. As a person who was arrested and tried for a crime he did not commit, I understand the possibility of the criminal justice system making an error all too well.…
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