Jury Sentences Scott Peterson to Death
Justice is served.
The jury's decision followed seven days of tearful testimony in the penalty phase. In arguing for death last week, prosecutors called Peterson "the worst kind of monster" and said he was undeserving of sympathy. Geragos begged of jurors: "Just don't kill him. That's all I am asking of you. End this cycle."
Prosecutors spent months portraying Peterson as a cheating husband and cold-blooded killer who wanted to murder Laci to escape marriage and fatherhood for the pleasures of the freewheeling bachelor life.
"They had no reason to doubt it was Scott who did what he did," said Laci Peterson's stepfather, Ron Grantski, the only member of her family to speak to reporters. "He got what he deserved."
posted by jacob.thrasher @ 12/14/2004 08:08:00 AM
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He did get what he deserved.
Justice for Laci & Conner!
He got what he deserved.
soo.. this is a christian site, and everyone is saying this guy should be killed because he killed?
i cant find that in jesus' teachings. can someone perhaps enlighten me as to where he said that?
Jeremy,
Please point me to a place where Jesus contradicted God's law for bringing murderers to justice.
its about time to take out the trash...i just dont see how a man can keep the manner he did throughout the trial? didnt he feel any sense of remorse for what he DEFINITELY did do? this guy has got to go....good ridance.
btw, thanks for your loyalty to my website. i've added you to my links.
There are many reasons why most of the world's Christians oppose the death penalty. Here are a few:
1. Christ said "love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you", "blessed are the meek", "turn the other cheek", "forgive seventy times seven"...the list goes on and on. Revenge and retaliation were simply not part of the Jesus administration's social justice policy.
2. Every western industrialized nation with the exception of the U.S. prohibits the death penalty as well as torture. We condone both. "What would Jesus do?", the bible belt bracelets ask. Many people have a hard time imagining him torturing or executing anyone.
3. Describe the worst kind of killer: cold, calculating, premeditated, and lacking in emotion are likely to be the adjectives you use...Are you describing Scott Peterson, the way the state executes individuals, or both? The death of Scott Peterson won't bring Lacey back.
Although I disagree with you on most issues, you have a good blog. Keep it up, and let me apologize to you again personally for the profanity hurled at you by a poster on my site.
Thanks Steve, you have a good blog too. And thanks for the apology; I certainly don't hold what that guy said against you. BTW, I don't care what anyone says, that picture of "Sgt. Rummy" was funny!
As for the death penalty...
You're right, Jesus never sentenced anyone to death. He was also never in a position of government. He taught about forgiveness and turning the other cheek, but governments have a unique job.
They must protect the people, for the protection of the law is on those who respect the law. If someone is a danger, and has killed his own wife and son _without remorse_, then he has proven himself to be dangerous to society.
On the government rests the job of the administration of justice. It is not our part, as citizens, to exact justice. We _are_ called to turn the other cheek. But justice has not been served by our forgiveness. The Bible is full of references to sowing and reaping, seed-time and harvest-time. These are to show that actions have consequences. Jesus has paid for Peterson's sin, and if he is (or becomes) a Christian, then the eternal price of his sin will have been paid, and he won't have to face the eternal consequences. But in this world, he does have to face the natural consequences.
God has forgiven him. And man should too. But the government is neither God nor man. It is the administration of justice in the world. Even though he has been forgiven, his actions have consequences. That's one of the immutable laws that God set forth when he created the world.
The death penalty is the ultimate penalty that government can inflict upon someone. But it's not the ultimate penalty. The ultimate penalty is upon us all if we don't come to Jesus, and the ultimate penalty can be avoided through Jesus' blood. But in the natural, sin still causes negative consequences and sin is still unhealthy (the wages of sin is death). The difference however, is that eternal death can't touch the Christian.
Kinda like the analogy of sowing and reaping there, Reliant. If you plant corn, then you'll reap corn. Well, let's just say that Peterson sowed some apples, and it's apples he's gonna pick.
Exodus 20:13 says to not murder. In Exodus 21:12 it says that if a man kills another man, he should be put to death, but in the next verse it says that if a man doesn't lie in wait to kill someone, and God delivers him into his hand, he will not be held under capital punishment.
If you kill someone, and the Bible is clear on this, if you kill somebody unless it is outright in war then you should be put to death. That's all there is to it. If the jury found him guilty, than he should be put to death. Scott Peterson, in my opinion on what I've heard and seen on TV, needs to be given the death sentence.
If you kill someone, and the Bible is clear on this, if you kill somebody unless it is outright in war then you should be put to death. That's all there is to it. If the jury found him guilty, than he should be put to death. Scott Peterson, in my opinion on what I've heard and seen on TV, needs to be given the death sentence.
Oops! I didn't mean to post it twice Neo!
ok, I think there were enough opions on this page and mine were difinatly inforced by Neo.
there is a reason why Hell is called the pit of fire, if scott doesn't get saved before his death row sentance is filled... he'll go there, I wonder if he can get any visits? and I wonder which Christian will love him enough to share the gospel w/ him, even if he doesn't accept Christ at least he'll know how to get to heaven.
Jesus died for him, Paul helped murder Christian and was greatly used by God. yes Scott got what he diserved, but most of us are not going to because we know Christ.
just a thought.
Actually Joey, most of the prisoners on Death Row become Christians... There is a strong ministry there, and the prisoners usually receive it well.
I honestly don't think the Bible has much to say about the subject of the Death Penalty.
The only secular laws in the Bible are the Mosaic laws, delivered to a very strange group of people (ex-slaves trying to establish a society from scratch.) By and large they can be considered to have worked out great, but that certainly doesn't mean they are applicable at all to our society or they are what God would hand down to us today. Very few people advocate a total return to Mosaic law.
Christ of course never claimed secular authority and gave no specific instructions on the limits, powers and duties of governments. Indeed his message was a very personal one.
Now of course personnal morality does have an effect on government/society morality but it seems clear that their are indeed distinctions between the two. For example, it is wrong for me to personnaly hold anyone prisoner regardless of what he has done to me, just as it is wrong for me to personnaly kill him. This is consistent both with Christian beliefs and with our accepted laws. It is almost without dispute that the government though is entitled to hold people prisoner.
Their are good arguments both for and against capital punishment. However, I don't think that any of those arguments can be definitively found in the Bible.
I know some people feel that all answers to all questions can be found in the Bible. I find this to be a very foolish sentiment and ungodly in it's own way.
yah know, i mostly think he got what he deserved cuz i don't see the point in wasting tax dollars just to keep an animal like that alive; yet on the other side i kinda wish he got life in prison....that way the inmates would be able to torture him for the rest of his life.
-Caleb
On one side I'm very glad that he got the death penalty (one because I believe the Bible promotes capital punishment and two because i don't see the point in wasting tax dollars just to keep an animal like that alive); on the other side i kinda think he should be kept alive....but only so that he can be violated every stinkin day in the showers for the rest of his life. I know it sounds heartless....but what he did exeeds my plan for punishment just a little, does it not?
-Caleb
sry if i posted that twice neo....you know how blond i am it's ok.lol.
-Caleb
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