{"id":113268,"date":"2019-09-26T00:15:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T07:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=113268"},"modified":"2019-09-04T21:48:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T04:48:48","slug":"texas-recently-murdered-a-man-for-a-crime-experts-say-he-did-not-commit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2019\/09\/texas-recently-murdered-a-man-for-a-crime-experts-say-he-did-not-commit.html","title":{"rendered":"Texas Recently Murdered a Man for a Crime Experts Say He Did Not Commit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Larry Swearingen was put to death for a murder and a rape that the science says he did not do.<\/a><\/p>\n

His last words were those of Jesus Christ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pious Catholic barbarians say things like, \u201cOh well!\u00a0 La di dah!\u00a0 If he\u2019s innocent then he\u2019ll to heaven!\u00a0 No harm done!\u00a0 Let\u2019s kill some more because of something something retributive justice!\u00a0 Ignore the teaching of Holy Church calling for the abolition of the death penalty.\u00a0 I have a book here by Ed Feser that says killing prisoners is fine so that makes it okay to fight the Church.\u00a0 And besides, abortion is worse and so it\u2019s okay if I wink at the murder of an innocent man.\u00a0 It\u2019s just one guy.\u00a0 God won\u2019t notice if I cheer for just one<\/em> murder.\u201d<\/p>\n

What they don\u2019t seem to grasp is that pious\u00a0 barbarians could have said the same thing when they murdered Jesus.\u00a0 The thing is, the fact he went to heaven did not do his murderers any good.\u00a0 That\u2019s the thing: the death penalty doesn\u2019t just kill the victim.\u00a0 It kills the soul of the person who cheers for the death of innocents in the lust for the blood of the guilty.<\/p>\n

As I said before<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The problem with the death penalty is, then, basically tripartite:<\/p>\n

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  1. It kills people who do not need to be killed.<\/li>\n
  2. It kills completely innocent people in order to kill people who do not need to be killed.<\/li>\n
  3. It makes the people who kill them into people who are eager to kill completely innocent people in order to kill people who do not need to be killed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In addition to this, it makes Catholic death penalty defenders into people willing to make war on the Church in order to become\u00a0people who are eager to kill completely innocent people in order to kill people who do not need to be killed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Larry Swearingen was put to death for a murder and a rape that the science says he did not do. His last words were those of Jesus Christ. Pious Catholic barbarians say things like, \u201cOh well!\u00a0 La di dah!\u00a0 If he\u2019s innocent then he\u2019ll to heaven!\u00a0 No harm done!\u00a0 Let\u2019s kill some more because of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[278],"class_list":["post-113268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abolish-the-death-penalty"],"yoast_head":"\nTexas Recently Murdered a Man for a Crime Experts Say He Did Not Commit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Larry Swearingen was put to death for a murder and a rape that the science says he did not do. His last words were those of Jesus Christ. 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