Death Penalty

 

People don’t behave on their own, so society writes laws for everyone to obey or pay the penalty. The penalty could be a verbal warning, a monetary fine, and detention over a period of time or in the worst-case scenario, execution.

Some of the laws were based on biblical writings and some were common sense. If you stole someone else’s horse, reparation needed to be made. If you disturbed a majority of the public, removal from society was judged proper for the good of all. What if you killed someone? The Bible taught  "And a man who injures his countryman – as he has done, so it shall be done to him [namely,] fracture under/for fracture, eye under/for eye, tooth under/for tooth. Just as another person has received injury from him, so it will be given to him." (Lev. 24:19–21).

So a judge would sentence you to die. You would die by whatever means was at hand. You could be executed by lynching. You could be executed by shooting. You could be executed by electrical shock. You could be executed by decapitation. You could be executed by burning at the stake. You could be executed by lethal injection.

However the process, the penalty for your crime against society was ‘death’.

And this penalty was accepted by the masses and people died at the hands of the state.

Now this state (actually a commonwealth) wants to end the ‘Death Penalty’.  Without reading all the details, which would mean the prisoner would be transited from certain death to life behind bars. If the thought of reducing or eliminating ‘cruel and inhuman’ punishment; the possibility of parole could be approved in the future.

Would this be “ In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.”

The only question with his change in judicial procedure and correctional policy is: WAR AS EUTHANASIA?