Agree, but wanna add, it needs to be done within months at the most...
Best to have swift justice. We need to abide by true justice rather than legalism.
Sometimes it amazes me still to this day the wisdom given in the Bible...
Am with you, brother
The Death Penalty when administered 20 years later does not have the bite on a young man that it was designed to. The criminal is forgotten and what he is put to death for has been lost in time.
Still preferable to him staying alive in jail.
Let me recount an episode I am familiar with that makes that point:
In 1979, two men entered an Oklahoma house and killed a man and his wife who lived there, then shot but did not kill their two kids, a young boy and girl.
The two men were later in the year caught after additional killings and robberies.
Both were sentenced to death in 1985, with one eventually getting life as he proved to be mentally unstable.
While they were languishing in jail, the son who was shot grew up and became a state Senator. He vigorously had legislation pass that permitted the family members of victims to be present at the execution of murderers.
The one man finally was executed after 17 years in jail in 1996. That Senator was there, as well as his sister who was shot by the murderer of her parents.
A movie was made on this and the delayed justice that took place. It never let the memory of what happened to be lost and forgotten.
How I knew about this was the man who was murdered was a Baptist preacher who married me and my wife a few years before.
Very personal to me.
