{"id":42111,"date":"2014-05-20T23:44:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T05:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/20\/an-amusing-or-not-look-at-the-death-penalty.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:45:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:45:57","slug":"an-amusing-or-not-look-at-the-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/20\/an-amusing-or-not-look-at-the-death-penalty.html","title":{"rendered":"An amusing (or not) look at the death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">The difficult thing about any death penalty debate is that it&#39;s hard to get past the emotions, either the emotions about state-sanctioned killing or the emotions about creating a just end to an (assumed) bad guy.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I&#39;m morally comfortable with capital punishment &#8212; if we had a much higher confidence in the actual guilt of the individuals who are on death row. There are far too many cases where that confidence has turned out to be tissue paper. And I don&#39;t want to support a state-sanctioned killing based on poor police work, incompetent public defenders, or catering to popular outrage over a heinous crime.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kye2oX-b39E' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/EY9RuEhN6AH' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The difficult thing about any death penalty debate is that it&#39;s hard to get past the emotions, either the emotions about state-sanctioned killing or the emotions about creating a just end to an (assumed) bad guy. Honestly, I&#39;m morally comfortable with capital punishment &#8212; if we had a much higher confidence in the actual guilt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/20\/an-amusing-or-not-look-at-the-death-penalty.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An amusing (or not) look at the death penalty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,715,9],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-crime-punishment","category-politics-law","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22780,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/albert-mohler-is-a-dolt-death-is-life-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":42111,"position":0},"title":"Albert Mohler is a Dolt (Death is Life Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Sep-11 12:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Albert Mohler is the President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a board member of Focus on the Family, and a major figure in Baptist \/ Evangelical \/ Fundamentalist theology. \u00a0Which is why this sort of thing so seriously chaps my hide. \u00a0Because people read this, and say, \"Hey, here's the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime &amp; Punishment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime &amp; Punishment","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/crime-punishment"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dore-crucifixionofjesus.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":133316,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/22\/the-random-and-arbitrary-nature-of-the-death-penalty-in-the-us.html","url_meta":{"origin":42111,"position":1},"title":"The random and arbitrary nature of the Death Penalty in the US","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 22-Apr-17 1:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Proponents of the death penalty often see it as a culmination of state and societal justice against the worst of the worse, the irredeemable, the unquestionably guilty, the folk who clearly disturb such state-sanctioned killing as the most just thing that can happen.In a perfect world (handwaving aside the idea\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51702,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/a-personality-driven-death-penalty.html","url_meta":{"origin":42111,"position":2},"title":"&quot;A personality-driven death penalty&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Jul-15 10:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"For many years I was an advocate of the death penalty. 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