The Fire and Hammer

*Posted by Joe Wooddell

This post is brief because it’s so straightforward: While it might sound counterintuitive, a society that values human life is a society in which the death penalty is still an option. Remember that there’s a difference between murder and other forms of killing. When a man walks into a movie theater, murders people in cold blood before several eyewitnesses, and is subsequently arrested, that man should receive a fair, speedy trial before a jury of his peers, and if he’s found guilty of the crime, he should be put to death. A society that does not put him to death does not value human life sufficiently. That is, the loving, compassionate thing to do is to impose capital punishment, while the unloving, hard-hearted thing to do is to let him live.