God can forgive anybody's sins - no problem. Society is given the task of meting out criminal justice.
Individuals are NOT permitted feelings of vengeance.
This is all basic Christian teaching.
When society executes its power correctly - feelings of injustice from the victims are negligible. We all must answer to God for our sins and society for our crimes. God does not forgive crimes.
Against this backcloth, we can view an event so terrible reported this last week that all arguments against capital punishment MUST automatically fail. Anything less than a lex talionis solution is an abomination.
To tie a young man to a tree; to torture him; to force him to drink petrol before setting him alight to suffer unspeakable terrors and an agonising death.
Such acts are so terrible that they automatically surrender any right or entitlement to life.
NO SOLUTION SHORT OF A ROPE AROUND THE NECK AFTER A SHORT 8am WALK CAN BE CONSIDERED JUSTICE; A JUSTICE WHICH IS COLD, NEUTRAL, DISPASSIONATE AND THEREFORE UNRECOGNISABLE AS REVENGE IN ANY WAY.
