Is the Death Penalty in America based on 'an eye for an eye , a tooth for a too

@lili Said
well, I think the thing with pro life is that a child is innocent, and has the potential to lead a good life. And the child is having that potential taken from them without ever having had a voice.

A criminal has chosen to cause pain and destruction with their life. They are no longer innocent, they have the ability to make adult choices, and they made some very very bad ones.

@hallucinogenic_lipstick Said
Yeah fair enough but life is life in my book.

What about the death penalty being classed as state murder?

@reference. dictionary.com Said

mur?der Audio Help /ˈmɜrdər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[mur-der] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
?noun
1. Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder), and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder).
2. Slang. something extremely difficult or perilous: That final exam was murder!
3. a group or flock of crows.
?verb (used with object)
4. Law. to kill by an act constituting murder.
5. to kill or slaughter inhumanly or barbarously.
6. to spoil or mar by bad performance, representation, pronunciation, etc.: The tenor murdered the aria.
?verb (used without object)
7. to commit murder.
?Idioms
8. get away with murder, Informal. to engage in a deplorable activity without incurring harm or punishment: The new baby-sitter lets the kids get away with murder.
9. murder will out, a secret will eventually be exposed.
10. yell or scream bloody murder,
a. to scream loudly in pain, fear, etc.
b. to protest loudly and angrily: If I don't get a good raise I'm going to yell bloody murder.

@hallucinogenic_lipstick Said
Im on the fence with the death penalty too many innocent people die as the 'justice' system isn't that honest.

Funny how some pro-lifers are for the death penalty though?!

@hallucinogenic_lipstick Said
Im on the fence with the death penalty too many innocent people die as the 'justice' system isn't that honest.

Funny how some pro-lifers are for the death penalty though?!

@noxus Said
The death of a fetus in hardly the same as the death of say some axe murrderer who kills 30 kids.

@iwannano Said
I have a couple of questions .

The death penalty as we know it today in America . Is it based on 'An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth' from the bible and if that is the original justification for what we know as the legal ,time honored Death Penalty of today ?
Does the 'separation of church and state' apply here ?



This link tells the history of the Death Penalty starting in the 1600's more than one hundred years before we became the country known as the USA of today up to to 2004
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Thank you everyone, I will just go back and search google some more for an answer.
Laters all,, iwannano
Thank you Katha.




History of the Death Penalty -- The Ancient Laws of China established the death penalty. In the 18th Century BC, the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon ,,,


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