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A Quiet "Yea!"
Dec. 17th, 2007 11:47 amNew Jersey abolished the death penalty.
I have a visceral aversion to the punishment. I've had it since the announcement of the last executions in France in the 1970s. They still used the guillotine.
In fairness to the French, a sharp blade may be the most "humane" (and my gorge is rising as I type that) way to end the life of a human being. Certainly, no other solution is better.
My father encouraged me to find the logical reasons to defend my arguments. It was my first intellectual exercise of that sort, and the lesson has stood me in good stead through years of schooling.
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siderea has me pegged as an INFJ. The F (and J, to a lesser extent) explains the visceral reaction. Learning to defend my reaction with sound critical thinking helps me in the academic world of Ts.
I have always been shocked, even when I was a practicing Christian, at how many Christians defend the practice. Too many people seem to think it can never be mistaken. Yet, the whole point of Jesus on the cross was that an innocent was subjected to capital punishment.
Massachusetts never reinstated the death penalty that I know of. Does that leave 48 more states to convert? Or are there others that never reinstated?
Edited to add that I found the answers to these questions. This comes from a website for Clark County, Indiana.
As of July 1, 2006, the Death Penalty was authorized by 38 states, the Federal Government, and the U.S. Military. Those jurisdictions without the Death Penalty include 12 states and the District of Columbia. (Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin).
U. S. EXECUTIONS SINCE 1976: 1,029 (as of July 1, 2006)
ON DEATH ROW IN THE U. S.: 3,370 (as of April 1, 2006)
I have a visceral aversion to the punishment. I've had it since the announcement of the last executions in France in the 1970s. They still used the guillotine.
In fairness to the French, a sharp blade may be the most "humane" (and my gorge is rising as I type that) way to end the life of a human being. Certainly, no other solution is better.
My father encouraged me to find the logical reasons to defend my arguments. It was my first intellectual exercise of that sort, and the lesson has stood me in good stead through years of schooling.
Side note:
siderea has me pegged as an INFJ. The F (and J, to a lesser extent) explains the visceral reaction. Learning to defend my reaction with sound critical thinking helps me in the academic world of Ts. I have always been shocked, even when I was a practicing Christian, at how many Christians defend the practice. Too many people seem to think it can never be mistaken. Yet, the whole point of Jesus on the cross was that an innocent was subjected to capital punishment.
Massachusetts never reinstated the death penalty that I know of. Does that leave 48 more states to convert? Or are there others that never reinstated?
Edited to add that I found the answers to these questions. This comes from a website for Clark County, Indiana.
As of July 1, 2006, the Death Penalty was authorized by 38 states, the Federal Government, and the U.S. Military. Those jurisdictions without the Death Penalty include 12 states and the District of Columbia. (Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin).
U. S. EXECUTIONS SINCE 1976: 1,029 (as of July 1, 2006)
ON DEATH ROW IN THE U. S.: 3,370 (as of April 1, 2006)
