The motive for introducing the subject was primarily to draw attention to the injustices and corruption that is rampant in all so-called civilized societies. Evidence in support of my last sentence is painfully obvious to anyone with guts enough to see it.
Me, I'm bible-led. This tells me that civilization has always been injust and corrupt. That there was never a time when it wasn't. Society might swing from one form of injustice and corruption to another but find it we will in any time. The current post-modern model supposes that a man is not truly responsible for what he does: genetic make-up, upbringing, prosperity (or lack thereof), the influence of drugs/drink consumed affecting his ability to discern right from wrong, indeed the blurring of what IS right and wrong - are all ingredients on the pot and lead to the notion that absolute responsibility for a crime cannot be laid soley at the feet of the offender. Once you blur the boundaries thus you open the way to the kind of ludicrous 'judgements' that can be handed down. There is no black and white - just shades of grey. And depending on the judge, jury, current philosophical fad and the skill/cost of an advocate, one offender will recieve a different shade of punishment than the other.
The system doesn't seek to rehabilitate - it just doles out varying degrees of punishment according to a shifting sea of what constitutes justice.
But your own ideas are equally unbiblical it seems to me. A death sentence for a crime committed can only see man playing God. All the facts can never be known. Even if the fact WERE all known there is no room in this thinking for "he who has not sinned" ...the principle that all deserve the death sentence for their sin...but that grace and mercy are the overriding principles to be invoked - not that anyone gets pulled up to court for adultery these days?
Which makes this notion all the more peculiar...
I will go further and suggest that most of us lack the guts or the will to reverse the decline of our glorious species.
Glorious species? We certainly don't treat each other like this is what we are. We are capable of the most vicious, cruel and inhumane behaviour of anything that walks this earth - are we not?
What you seem to be attempting to do in proposing a death penalty is play God. We are in no position to do so. And whilst we must of necessity seek to do our best so as not to have society fall assunder any more that it already has we must be careful not to assume ourselves to be divine. We should be humble enough to recognise that we are arriving at purely subjective notions as to seriousness. Notions which are heavily influenced by the time in which we live. What was seen as a crime yesterday (murder is murder) is seen otherwise today (murder has shades) and will no doubt be seen as something different tomorrow. Subjective. Therefore we should be circumspect about dealing in absolutes. And there is nothing more absolute than the death sentence. Its so very Eye for an Eye. So very OT (or OTT). So very not "Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone"
If man was half as glorious as you say, his central desire would be that his fallen, yet still glorious brother would somehow be redeemed. That he would come to understand and admit to the error of his ways. And that by this he would be restored to 'glory'. By all means take account of that which influenced him, by all means take account of his poor upbringing. But never let the tools he used in the mechanism of his wrong doing be seen as other than tools to which he applied the force. Punish him by all means - but be prepared to forgive. For we are all in need of it.
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