Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "America Is Still Obsessed With the Death Penalty" video.

  1. Ministers of the so-called gospel often kept quiet, and let the public make the decisions. They knew that if they rocked the boat concerning public opinion, their churches would be empty. From the book … The Death Penalty: An American History … author … Stuart Banner. At other executions for burglary, ministers took note of the widespread doubts as to the propriety of the sentence and attempted to justify it. But doubts continued to multiply. “If I am not myself barbarous, so bloody-minded, and revengeful, as to kill a fellow creature for stealing from me fourteen shillings,” Benjamin Franklin wondered along with a great many others, “how can I approve of a law that does it.”
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  2. Most people that support the death penalty, also believe that a god exists that supports the idea that humans should put each other to death. That's religion ... for you ... if you buy that story as being true. I suggest that the story is based on mythical hyperbole, and that it was only men that always wanted to put each other to death.
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