THE ANSWER TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

THERE IS NO ANSWER

As a liberal caring person that attempts to follow the teachings of the Buddha, I abhor the state executions of human beings.   Any incident of people executed by a government is a crime against humanity.   Even though it is kept secret – removed from the view of the public – it is still barbaric; whether administered by hanging, stoning,  beheading, shooting, electric chair, boiling in oil, dismembering or lethal injection.

But then:

The prisoner recently executed in the state of Oklahoma was sentenced to death as the result of a home invasion where he raped a young girl, shot her and then buried her alive.   Had this happened to someone I cared for I would gleefully kill him myself – slow and painfully. 

My dilemma

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