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How to kill a criminal
Capital Punishment has been a hot topic around here lately. It got pretty heated and I debated on putting this news up. However, I would like everyone’s opinion on 
this.
This is not about Capital Punishment being legal or illegal. And it isn’t about what we think of it being legal or illegal. It is about how do we end the life of a prisoner and what is humane.
Here is what is going on in Ohio:
Ohio waded into uncharted territory Friday when it announced plans to switch from the usual three-drug cocktail used to execute inmates to a one-drug method….
The switch came two months after an Ohio inmate walked away from a botched execution attempt (they couldn’t find a vein and after 2 hours the Governor stopped the execution), and it is almost certain to get tied up in appeals and draw the close attention of other states that have long used the three-drug method…..
Under the three-drug method, the first drug knocks out an inmate, the second paralyzes him and the third stops his heart — a process that death penalty opponents argue is excruciatingly painful if the first drug doesn’t work.
The Execution of a Sniper
John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to be executed tomorrow in Virginia. The U.S. supreme court denied an appeal from Muhammad’s lawyers.
This is a very difficult situation. I feel for the victims and their families but I do not believe that the death penalty is the answer.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states in Part 3 Section 2 Article 5:
Assuming that the guilty party’s identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor.
If, however, non-lethal means are sufficient to defend and protect people’s safety from the aggressor, authority will limit itself to such means, as these are more in keeping with the concrete conditions of the common good and more in conformity with the dignity of the human person.
Today, in fact, as a consequence of the possibilities which the state has for effectively preventing crime, by rendering one who has committed an offense incapable of doing harm—without definitively taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself—the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity “are very rare, if not practically non-existent.”
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