The issue with the death penalty and Developmental Disorders
…call a spade a spade.
That’s what I was doing.
Also, some do agree with the definition I was using.
The following quote is an abstract of an article from Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, but the article itself is available for free download here.
When it comes to common usage, I’ve often heard people refer to the act of oppressive governments/regimes committing genocide against ethnic groups or religious minorities as “mass murder” even if the killing was mandated by the government. Sometimes and throughout history innocent people or those who were guilty of lesser crimes have been put to death. Few, if any, would consider those deaths justified no matter who was behind them. People seem more likely to refer to capital punishment as “murder” when they don’t think it’s justified. Some don’t think capital punishment is ever justified.
Once again, I am free to use whatever words seem appropriate to me and that best express my specific point of view/philosophical outlook.
Here’s some interesting but somewhat unrelated research I came across regarding views of the death penalty in the US. People who are Republican, less educated, and religious are more likely to be pro-capital punishment.
Views of the death penalty differ by religious affiliation. Around two-thirds of Protestants in the U.S. (66%) favor capital punishment, though support is much higher among White evangelical Protestants (75%) and White non-evangelical Protestants (73%) than it is among Black Protestants (50%). Around six-in-ten Catholics (58%) also support capital punishment, a figure that includes 61% of Hispanic Catholics and 56% of White Catholics.
Opposition to the death penalty also varies among the religiously unaffiliated. Around two-thirds of atheists (65%) oppose it, as do more than half of agnostics (57%). Among those who say their religion is “nothing in particular,” 63% support capital punishment.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads ... n-the-u-s/
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I was using the legal definition of murder, I am sorry!
Although different states and countries have their own laws and definitions of what murder is.
She did make a good point that states and countries that don't use death penalty would view death penalty as murder, the issue of calling death penalty murder, is if it is legally still used, but it shouldn't be used.
I live in a country where the death penalty is not used. Civilized countries don't use the death penalty. I am against the death penalty. I think it's morally wrong. That doesn't change the fact that I think "murder" should be used strictly as a legal term and nothing people throw around to show their disliking of the death penalty.
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English is not my first language.
This 100%. It is deeply disturbing when a government can have somebody killed, no matter what the reason might be. Anyone who cares at all about civil liberties would not support the death penalty. I'm an American and it sickens me that it hasn't been abolished here.
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