Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Should There Be A Death Penalty? - The People Speak" video.

@44517A I don't agree. Many members of families have tried to have their family members' sentences reduced to life in prison rather than havig them face the death penalty. I don't believe in the death penalty for any family members, including my own, IF they should happen to commit murder. A person that supports the death penalty wants vengeance ... and I don't support vengeance.
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If one of your own "beloved" family members committed a horrible crime, would you also want THAT family member to be put to death? I'll wait for your response to see if you stick to the same set of supposed "morals." My guess is, I'll be waiting a long time.
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@w1z4rd9 I don't believe in vengeance ... and the death penalty IS based on vengeance. We don't put people to death for physical disturbances, and we should not put people to death for mental disturbances. Living on this earth with all its physical and emotional suffering and confusion and violence ... often results in murder. Two wrongs do not make a right. They never did, and they never will.
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@44517A Would you want to introduce your best friend as being a person who (for a living) puts other people to death? From the book … Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind … author … Howard Engel If the revenge that the pro-execution group advocates is pure and proper under the law, why are executioners, in spite of this new openness about the desired ends and purposes that executions serve, still the social pariahs they were six hundred years ago. Why is it that they still hide their names? There must remain deep in the consciousness of the most rabid of the execution fanciers a shred of doubt about what they are advocating, otherwise executioners would be invited out more often, appear on more board of directors, and be invited to join in groups like Rotary, the Lions, the Elks, and the Chamber of Commerce.
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Would you rather be alive in this era ... with no death penalty ... or back in the day when Protestant Christian politicians (in Canada) enforced the death penalty for over two hundred (so called) reasons? From the book … Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada, author … Lorna Poplak. Capital punishment, the execution of someone found guilty of a crime, dates back to arrival of the European explorers on our shores. In those days, if you were condemned to death, quite a wide range of methods could be used to punish you. You could be hanged, or face a firing squad, or be burned at the stake. Although Canada remained a collection of separate British colonies until Confederation in 1876, a Royal Proclamation in 1763 replaced the prevailing Canadian legal system with the laws of England. By the end of the 1700s in Britain, however, the litany of crimes regarded as sufficiently horrible to warrant the death penalty had swelled to 220, including nefarious acts as keeping company with gypsies or skulking in the dark with a blackened face. In 1828, Patrick Burgan of Saint John, New Brunswick, aged eighteen or nineteen, received the death penalty for the double offence of stealing a watch and some money from his former employer and clothing from a sailors’ boarding house. Given the power and pre-eminence of religion in Canada at that time, your very life would have been in jeopardy if you were caught scrawling slogans on the side of a church. You could also be hanged for stealing your neighbor’s cow, which was the fate of B. Clement of Montreal. And just in case you thought that the law protected the young as it does today, think again. Children were regarded as miniature adults and treated as such — Clement was only thirteen years old when executed.
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Do you WANT to know what happened, and what still happens, when those in religion use words from their books to insist that they know what is, and what is not … moral? From the book … The Death Penalty: An American History … author … Stuart Banner. “Liberty in the united states is verging fast toward licentiousness,” declared the Philadelphia minister Robert Annan in a passionate response to Rush’s arguments for abolition. “Religion, the only sure basis of good government, is entirely set aside … Humanity is become the popular cry!” The death penalty had been ordained by God, and it was presumptuous to announce that God’s provisions were no longer needed.
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