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Something I said today. I cannot breathe through my nose. I have to change my witch doctor...I mean, psychiatrist appointment because that's when I go in to complete my registration for next semester. Volunteering starts tomorrow at the hospital. We now have the white rat, aka Recon, Brian's dog, at our house for three weeks. Lovely. Mr. Whining-butt, I call him. That dog whines more than any dog I've ever seen, it drives me nuts.
You know, that Stanley Tookie Williams character, he got executed. And tons of people pleaded for clemency for him. Why? Because he wrote some kids' books about staying out of gangs. ok...then someone nominated him for Nobel Prizes in Peace and Literature a few years back....for writing kids books?! Why don't you just make him Saint Tookie while you're at it? Sounds like a great idea, doesn't it? People claim that he should have gotten clemency because he was a changed man. Well, let's look at a list of his crimes and we'll see if writing kids' books should get him off of the hook. He was tried and found guilty of the murders of four people he killed back in the '70s or '80s, I don't remember...I think the trial was in the '80s though. One was a store clerk, the others a father, mother, and daughter who ran a hotel in Los Angeles. Guilty. Jury gave him the death penalty. That alone should get him executed, no matter how many kids' books he wrote. Then there's the almost trivial (note the sarcasm) fact that he founded one of the most notorious gangs in America, the Crips. They're everywhere, including my hometown of Fayetteville. They trashed the public high school next to my private school a number of years ago. Oh, and should I mention that he still claims he's innocent, and never apologized for the murders? Does this man deserve clemency? NO!!!!
Even if he was "reformed", he should still have been executed. No matter how much you say you're sorry, you still have to pay for what you did. The law is the law, no exceptions. Some might say that this is not Christian-like. It is. God is just. His mercy allows us to accept His gift of salvation, but He still required payment for the crimes we commited against him. Jesus paid that price. That He allowed Jesus to die for us is His mercy to us. But, THE PRICE HAS TO BE PAID. That is why capital punishment is ok from a Christian point of view.