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Ernie Chambers is an atheist in the Nebraska State Legislature. After many years of trying, he finally got a bill passed the abolished the death penalty there. I think this is great!
Some progressives might even suggest that Chambers is much more of a Christian than most professing Christians. Don’t do it. Because he’s not. He’s an atheist.
But remember Chambers submitted that bill nearly 40 times, not because he was a man of faith but because he wasn’t. Remember that it was Christians who stood in the way and shot it down for almost four decades as well. Remember, too, that the dominant portrait of atheism for many Christians isn’t someone like Chambers but crude and disparaging stereotypes found in films like God’s Not Dead.
So don’t thank God for what happened in Nebraska. Instead, give credit where credit is truly due.
Thank an atheist.
(This happened back in May, so it's kind of old news. I don't remember it being posted.)
Ernie Chambers is an atheist in the Nebraska State Legislature. After many years of trying, he finally got a bill passed the abolished the death penalty there. I think this is great!
Okay, so it proves not all atheists are intelligent.
yeah, waste more money keeping wacks alive. get job, Why end it when we can have criminal just keep on victimizing us over and over and over and over.
Actually theres a couple problems with your statement. The cost to execute someone are higher then the costs of life imprisonment. Additionally we've executed some innocent people. Like...a lot more then we should.
I'd be happier with death penalty cases having a much higher standard of guilt, and less appeal venues.
I'd be happier with death penalty cases having a much higher standard of guilt, and less appeal venues.
Yes. Justice isn't a deterrent when it's not swift. Not that prison life is easy, but the typical 20 to 30 years of appeals with free room & board is not even a meaningful shortening of life for someone convicted in their 40s or later. And given that many murderers have impulse control issues it's scarcely on their radar if the penalty is not fairly immediate.
Nor is it just the lack of strong connection in time and certainty between the crime and the punishment; it's the cost of incarceration -- and not just ordinary, but special, separate incarceration ... as you point out.
If we're not comfortable as a society putting people to death in some fashion that doesn't negate the whole idea, then just don't do it. Imprison them for life and be done with it.
Heck, some countries aren't even up for that much. They will put even a heinous mass murderer away for 25 or 30 years max. The (excellent) Russian movie Leviathan depicts someone (wrongfully) convicted of the equivalent of 1st degree murder getting a 15 year sentence based on it being a first offense. Otherwise it would have been 20.
Whatever ... I wish we'd just make up our mind and do something, making sure that "something" actually counts and is effective.
Actually theres a couple problems with your statement. The cost to execute someone are higher then the costs of life imprisonment. Additionally we've executed some innocent people. Like...a lot more then we should.
Saving money was one reason they got the votes to eliminate it.
Yee Haw! Gone get dem trouble makers to ride the lightning baby!
What is the utility of a murderer?
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