Discussion for article #233658
Setting aside any discussion of the morality of the death penalty itself, I’ve just got a real problem with executing the planner and instigator based on the actual killer trading testimony against her for his life. I just don’t see a morally defensible argument by which she is more culpable than he is, and the argument that without his testimony, she would have walked justifies sparing him the death penalty, not giving it to her.
But the argument that she found Jesus on Death Row is not even a little bit persuasive to me as grounds for clemency. The stuff a person does or says after committing a crime doesn’t pay the debt owed society and the victim.
I find it strange that the right to life mob loves every Commandment except Thou shalt not kill. They seem to have an immense loathing for Commandment #7.