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- Oct 2023
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claudemariottini.com claudemariottini.com
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People used stones to carry out the death penalty against people who had violated laws forbidding adultery, apostasy, blasphemy, profanation of the Sabbath, child sacrifice, witchcraft, and soothsaying.
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- Jul 2021
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halfanhour.blogspot.com halfanhour.blogspot.com
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Well, no. I oppose capital punishment, just as (in my view) any ethical person should oppose capital punishment. Not because innocent people might be executed (though that is an entirely foreseeable consequence) but because, if we allow for capital punishment, then what makes murder wrong isn't the fact that you killed someone, it's that you killed someone without the proper paperwork. And I refuse to accept that it's morally acceptable to kill someone just because you've been given permission to do so.
Most murders are system 1-based and spur-of-the-moment.
System 2-based murders are even more deplorable because in most ethical systems it means the person actively spent time and planning to carry the murder out. The second category includes pre-meditated murder, murder-for-hire as well as all forms of capital punishment.
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- Apr 2015
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www.bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com
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a jury will decide whether to sentence him to death.
I thought Massachusetts eliminated the death penalty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Massachusetts
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