Timothy Birdnow

Attorney General William Barr has announced the Federal Government will resume executing condemned criminals. They ended the practice in 2002.

Read about it at Hot Air.

The article cites conservatives against the death penalty, who complain about the cost of executing an individual. That is nonsensical; we spend more every day on other things. At least we are making a bold statement; if you murder somebody or commit some other heinous act you will die. The Bible puts it plainly - the King has the "power of the sword' to "punish evildoers". NOT the power of prison or the power of psychological analysis. The sword. Why?

Because in the end fear of being put to death will indeed reduce crime. And even if it does not, it makes a statement that crime is intolerable, that we as a society value the rule of law and the protection of the innocent. It's a statement about who we are, who we protect. Doing away with the death penalty is saying we don't care about the innocent victims, but rather more about the monsters.

I have always found it amazing that we held so many terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and yet executed none of them. That sent a message to the enemy, that we wouldn't kill them for what they did. We needed to execute a lot of them. That would have made the point that we weren't going to put up with terrorism. But the cowardly Bush Administration was afraid to do it, and the disloyal Obama Administration even more so. But it needed to be done. In any war crimes committed by the enemy are punished by death. Only in the so--called War on Terror have we tried imprisonment alone. And so many of the enemy have ended up back on the battle field.

This is a good decision. I'm willing to spend the money to do it, rather than waste this money on idiotic programs, like promoting global warming education or whatnot. At least something worthwhile is being done with our cash.

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