On his blog Arguments Yard, Rich clearly stabs at conservatives regarding the execution of Tookie Williams. He just "doesn't get it":
"I just don't get how conservatives can claim government is so incompetent that it can't even teach biology, but do think government is competent enough to execute its own citizens without ever making an error."
He goes further to say, "I just don't get how religious conservatives continue to support a process whereby government gets to decide when people will die, regardless of how much life they may have remaining in which to repent and try to build a relationship with God."
Hmm? We support a government that decides when people die? Yet so much of our fight is to protect life? Especially the most defenseless, the unborn?
And exactly how much remorse did Mr. Tookie Williams show? The evidence is lacking.
While personally I do have a hard time with the death penalty, and I'd prefer life imprisonment just the same, I don't think Rich here is truly aware of what us "religious conservatives" believe or vote for in the law.
What do you think?
2 comments:
I am for the abolition of the death penalty by legislative means (not by the fiat of some court), but there is certainly a difference between the innocent and the guilty.
In order to provide proof of rehabilitation you would first have to admit that you are guilty and have something to be rehabilitated from. Tookie never showed an ounce of remorse for the murders he was proved to be committed of numerous times through the appeals process. Sure his book is about learning from his life mistakes; however that is not regarding the numerous murders he was proven guilty of.
Tookie could have secured his own life in prison by giving the authorities the information they wanted to help police make significant advancement in the fight against gang violence.
Also, to combat the religious aspects regarding the death penalty:
The government is obligated to punish the guilty and uphold the good (Romans 13). In a world where men are not moral or act morally, the willingness of the State to punish is what maintains order. In a world where the guilty go free, there is no reason to behave.
See the comments section at the political cartoon from Dec. 13th at: http://southernappeal.blogspot.com/ it also has some great points regarding the reasoning behind this.
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