June 21, 2020
U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr has announced we will resume federal executions - after a two decade hiatus!
That is good news; part of our problem with increasing crime is people know they can do anything and largely get away with it.
After nearly two decades, the federal government will once again begin executing criminals, the Justice Department announced Monday. Four inmates convicted of murdering children are set to be put to death by lethal injection.
"The four murderers whose executions are scheduled today have received full and fair proceedings under our Constitution and laws," said Attorney General William Barr in a statement. "We owe it to the victims of these horrific crimes, and to the families left behind, to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system."
The crimes were grisly. Daniel Lewis Lee murdered a family of three, including an 8-year-old girl. He's been on death row since 1999; his execution is scheduled for July 13. Wesley Ira Purkey, who raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl, will be put to death on July 15. Dustin Lee Honken, who shot and killed five people, will be executed July 17. Keith Dwayne Nelson, who kidnapped, raped and strangled a 10-year-old girl to death with a wire, will be executed Aug. 28.
Federal executions have been exceedingly rare in recent decades. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, only three have taken place since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988. All of those executions were carried out during the George W. Bush administration. One of those was Timothy McVeigh, sentenced to death for bombing the Oklahoma City federal building.
Frankly, I wish we would hold them publicly, have a televised execution so everyone will see what justice looks like. Executions lose their value the way we do them, rarely and in private. The bad guys need to see a fellow light up with sparks.The Book of Romans states:
"Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ..."
"Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image."
And Paul says the State bears the "power of the sword" to "punish evildoers".
But we've decided we know better than God. And as a result we've born reaped the whirlwind.
In an atmosphere of rising insurrection and chaos it's past time we reinstitute the death penalty.
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(When I said "knee-jerk" I was tempted to leave off the "knee-" part.)
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