Would You Support Crucifiction As a Sentencing Option?

[Ernie S.]

I would be all for the survivors of the victim deciding the method of execution.

 

[Ernie S.]

In light of barbaric practices the US has embraced, I really question this concept you throw out, that the US is a civilized country.

Sherri

The US is civilized in giving people and states freedom to make these decisions democratically.

Just because the choice of abortion or execution is legal on the books, doesn't mean you are required to have them. You can choose not to use them, and especially choose prevention so you don't ever have to use them, which is the ideal. We have the freedom to pursue and establish a society free of these things WITHOUT relying on govt to ban it for us.

We have the freedom to work on preventing rape, sexual abuse, murder, etc. so that the day we don't have abortions or executions, the reason will be that we changed things by free will to prevent the causes of why these things are happening. Not because the govt banned them, but because we chose to correct the root problems freely ourselves, by the free exercise of our personal beliefs, which our civil laws protect under the first and fourteenth amendment.

emilynghiem,

I am really not seeing this connection between democracy and being civilized, under democracy the US has embraced such barbaric and uncivilized practices as slavery, capital punishment of children, segregation, using nuclear bombs against civilian cities in foreign lands, burning to death civilians in other lands with fire bombing and napalm and other weapons, using drones to kill civilians in foreign lands with.

Today, giving money to starving children's charities in Palestine can result in long prison sentences, 65 years to life, as we see with the recent case of the Holy Land Five. In the interests of so called national security, absolutely all rights of a person under the Constitution can be taken away by our government, and the Supreme Court could care less, they refuse to even hear the cases.

So much for your view of the US as a democratic and civilized nation and this so called link between democracy and being civilized!

Good luck with all of that!

Sherri

A civilized country, sometimes must act in an uncivilized manner to rid itself of the unredeemable.
Is it more civilized to release the most violent back into society or to ensure they never cause harm again?