christianity and the death penalty

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Do you think that there will be no people that think of the US-soldier who already killed 2000 people, as a serial killer? If someone is wrong or right is always a matter of oppinion. I think the cause why most european countries dont have death sentence anymore, is highly because people dont want to risc that their life one day will be depending on someones personal oppinion. There may be some true, true, true evil criminals who live because of that. But the major part is, that there will be never a true innocent dying because of that, as long as it doesnt exist anymore.

I don't think killing anyone is merciful unless they're in a hell of a lot of pain.

Some people have done some things so horrible that you can't really punish them for it adequately, anyway. I think serial killers should be allowed to take their own lives, a lot of them do actually want to die - and execution gives them a blaze of glory to go out with so to speak - let them do the work themselves, instead. Otherwise put them away forever to protect everyone else, if they would rather live than die.

Complete abolishion of the death penalty (both for ordinary crimes and war crimes) is a binding agreement if a country wants to be part of the EU. It is now laid down in protocol 13, but in the early stages of what is now the EU, the European Convention of Human Rights was drafted by the Council of Europe. One of the main reasons for abolishing the death penalty was to prevent what happened in Nazi Germany from happening ever again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_ ... man_Rights

Referring to the classic (p. 262):
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28054/28 ... 054-h.html

I'd read that it was based on some existing document some years ago and just now tried to do some research on that; turns out the biographers of the writer never did find any written document of the kind, so fiction based on the author's philosophical point of view is about as far as 'evidence' will be represented here - still something to ponder and not the least important view to take into account.

"The Brothers Karamazov" is indeed a work of fiction, and therefore can not be considered as evidence to support your claim.

Read it at uni, wrote a 12-page paper on it, got a "B", sold the book to a bookstore, and sold the manuscript to a sophomore woman at another uni.

She received an "A" for it.

You don't have to be so boring you know.