>>>>Justice too often is about revenge rather than anything else..
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>>>>The death penalty is babaric regardless of the form. In that sense the US is totally backward to any other western country.
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>>>>"Thy shall not kill"
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>>>It's actually "Thy shall not murder".
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>>If you're talking of the 10 commandments it's actually "Thou shalt not kill". "Thy" means "your" as in "belonging to you, singular".
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>Yes. I stand corrected.
>But the the word "kill" comes from a Hebrew word "ratsach", which means "... killing without just cause...". So more accurately the modern day scriptures are translated to say "Thou shalt not murder".

It's still an arguable point though as to what constitutes killing with or without cause. If someone breaks into your house and threatens your family, the law allows that you might kill the intruder to end the threat. However, if you were to end the threat by overpowering the person, and then while he is laying on the ground, shoot him through the head, the law would take a very dim view indeed. In other words, once the threat is neutralized, the further act of killing becomes, in the eyes of the law, murder.

So; when a killer is captured and put into prison, always assuming the prison is properly run, and the legal system is properly run, is the threat then not neutralized? Why would the law consider that you are a murder if you kill a defenseless person once he is neutralized, but the law itself is not a murderer having committed essentially the same act?