'Werner Herzog meets Joseph Garcia and George Rivas. Garcia's case is one of a tragic outcome from an everyday event, and a punishment out of proportion. Rivas was executed in February 2012.' (Pre-programme blurb.)
This is Channel 4! Butchering a police officer after breaking out of prison is apparently 'an everyday event'. And in precisely what way is this a punishment out of proportion?
To grant citizens the right - nay the entitlement - to take somebody else's life knowing that their own life may never ever come under any threat is the purest of moral depravity. Even Garcia admitted the total absence of remorse amongst the seven - although he does try to claim that he alone had qualms.
Abolishing a death penalty means that you are making the statement that no crime can ever be committed which might possibly be worthy of death. This is manifest nonsense and also defies Genesis 9:6 and The Lex Talionis.
Rivas had the time to sort out his relationship with God. Did Officer Aubrey Hawkins have that opportunity as he was being slaughtered, I wonder?
No possible issue of 'innocence' here - so what's the deal? There is scriptural warrant.
These were men already serving long sentences for truly terrible crimes including murder.
Let us talk of 'innocence', shall we? - Can't have dead 'innocents'? - ISN'T THAT THE ARGUMENT? - So. What makes Aubrey Hawkins less of a victim in abolitionist arguments?
Had the murderers in that group already been executed - what were the chances of the officer having died?
The finality of the death penalty is usually a massive benefit - extremely rarely a negative - except in the minds of abolitionists desperate in their quests to uncover 'martyrs'.
