Articles tagged Capital Punishment

Updated from a commentary I wrote in 2006. In most liberal countries capital punishment is outlawed and usually opposed by a healthy majority of the population. That is all well and good. I too oppose capital punishment in those nations where the penal system is sufficient to keep dangerous criminals from harming others. However, many of these so-called liberal countries, accept abortion, and most began their acceptance of abortion with accepting abortion in the hard cases of rape and incest. However, in a civilized country we punish the guilty and not the innocent. So why are we suggesting capital punishment […]