Susan Smith

[CardinalBacker]

14 minutes ago, baddog said:

No, this is a woman. She should be strapped in the back seat of a car (facing backwards) and rolled slowly into a lake so that she can experience what her two beautiful, innocent boys viewed just before the water rose above their heads while screaming her name. (punishment fit the crime). How terrible of me.

All murders don’t meet the criteria for a “capital” offense. Extenuating circumstances are always in the mix. I’d say she met the criteria but somehow got it reduced to life (where’s the without parole). TVC can enlighten you much better than myself.

Which one of the Ten Commandments tells us not to incarcerate a person for their crimes?  Which one tells us not to kill? 

[baddog]

28 minutes ago, CardinalBacker said:

Which one of the Ten Commandments tells us not to incarcerate a person for their crimes?  Which one tells us not to kill? 

Well, you’re asking the wrong person. You know how I feel. These laws weren’t enacted by just a “bunch of old white guys”. Liberals groupings are comical because they always lay blame. Someone else is always responsible. Now, you’re against incarceration.
 

Hey, if she was in California, they’d probably say she had a bad day, someone had offended her, or she forgot to take her meds……let her bond out and be on her way. Everybody is a winner except for the 3 year old and 14 month old boys. This is where we differ. You think about the punishment for her and I think about the kids.

[CardinalBacker]

5 hours ago, baddog said:

Well, you’re asking the wrong person. You know how I feel. These laws weren’t enacted by just a “bunch of old white guys”. Liberals groupings are comical because they always lay blame. Someone else is always responsible. Now, you’re against incarceration.
 

Hey, if she was in California, they’d probably say she had a bad day, someone had offended her, or she forgot to take her meds……let her bond out and be on her way. Everybody is a winner except for the 3 year old and 14 month old boys. This is where we differ. You think about the punishment for her and I think about the kids.

You misunderstood what I said- I’m in favor of incarceration. My point was that murder is specifically forbidden while incarceration is not even mentioned as being sinful. 

[tvc184]

20 hours ago, CardinalBacker said:

So  “thou shall not kill” applies to helpless unborns, but not to men handcuffed to gurneys decades after whatever crime they committed. 
 

Makes sense to me.  
 

 

Are you now wanting the Holy Bible to set our laws?

I believe that most people believe that the correct translation should be…..  Thou shall not murder 

In any case of your new conversion….

Genesis 9:6

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

I don’t think unborn children have shed a man’s blood.

 

 I am also assuming by your response that self-defense is a sin.

Good to know. 

[CardinalBacker]

2 hours ago, tvc184 said:

Are you now wanting the Holy Bible to set our laws?

I believe that most people believe that the correct translation should be…..  Thou shall not murder 

In any case of your new conversion….

Genesis 9:6

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

I don’t think unborn children have shed a man’s blood.

 

 I am also assuming by your response that self-defense is a sin.

Good to know. 

Injecting a man with life ending drugs while he’s strapped to a gurney isn’t self defense. It’s murder. 
 

State sanctioning doesn’t change that fact in God’s eyes, IMO. 
 

Jesus also said to let “he who is without sin cast the first stone.” 
 

My point is that two wrong don’t make a right. Capital punishment might appeal to the public’s thirst for blood, but that doesn’t make it right. 

[baddog]

5 hours ago, tvc184 said:

Are you now wanting the Holy Bible to set our laws?

I believe that most people believe that the correct translation should be…..  Thou shall not murder 

In any case of your new conversion….

Genesis 9:6

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

I don’t think unborn children have shed a man’s blood.

 

 I am also assuming by your response that self-defense is a sin.

Good to know. 

Man, don’t thump the Ten Commandments at people unless you follow all ten. All liberals do is “bear false witness”. Read Proverbs 19:9.

Try Leviticus 24:17 for death penalty.

 

[TxHoops]

On 11/21/2024 at 8:41 AM, CardinalBacker said:

Hypocritical is crying that abortion stops a beating heart while demanding the murder of another human being. 

 

And vice versa.

Me?  I'm pro-life... unborn children AND convicted criminals.  The part no one wants to recognize is that it cost a lot less money to house/clothe/feed Susan Smith for 40 years that it would cost to fund her appeals of a death sentence.  I'm also anti-wasteful spending.  

 

This is all correct. 

[TxHoops]

I believe God should bring us into the world and take us out of the world. When man decides to play God, problems arise. Some just choose when they believe they should decide and when they shouldn’t. That’s at least one thing I won’t have to answer for.  
 

Oh, and we’ve also executed plenty of innocent people in this country.  So there’s that…