Tookie Williams denied clemency

scaeagles · 12-13-2005, 08:51 AM

Either that or it needs to be....executed, for lack of a better term....before 26 years passes.

I have never really bought into the biblical argument against the death penalty regarding "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" stuff. Principles of forgiveness certainly need to be applied, and contextually it is speaking on a personal level rather than a governmental level. I could present some out of context argument from scripture like "The wages of sin is death", but I certainly don't think thievery is worthy of the death penalty.

I suppose what makes me saddest about the death penalty is not the execution of someone like a Tookie Williams, but the fact that the family must wait 26 years for the sentence to finalized. What a horrid thing to have to endure. Life without parole would certainly bring it to (and good lord I hate this term) closure much, much faster. While certainly possible to move on with life, whenever the appeals are heard and the story hits the news again it's right back in the face of the families of the victims. It is almost more punishing to them than the perpetrator.

12-13-2005, 08:51 AM	#10
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	Either that or it needs to be....executed, for lack of a better term....before 26 years passes. I have never really bought into the biblical argument against the death penalty regarding "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" stuff. Principles of forgiveness certainly need to be applied, and contextually it is speaking on a personal level rather than a governmental level. I could present some out of context argument from scripture like "The wages of sin is death", but I certainly don't think thievery is worthy of the death penalty. I suppose what makes me saddest about the death penalty is not the execution of someone like a Tookie Williams, but the fact that the family must wait 26 years for the sentence to finalized. What a horrid thing to have to endure. Life without parole would certainly bring it to (and good lord I hate this term) closure much, much faster. While certainly possible to move on with life, whenever the appeals are heard and the story hits the news again it's right back in the face of the families of the victims. It is almost more punishing to them than the perpetrator.
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