How could one be pro-life and pro- capital punishment?

Question

If someone can explain this it would be much relief to me!

Such as Sarah Palin the Republican VP candidate who also supports the war in Iraq!

Answer 1

Your equating an unborn child to a convicted murderer is quite moronic.

Answer 2

A true believer in life would be pro-life no matter if it abortion

or death penalty. A life is a life !!

Answer 3

You don't have to have intelligence to be a Republican.  In fact, you'll be much more loyal if you don't.  But the real hypocrisy is that they pretend to have so much concern for the "unborn," but the born into poverty can just go to h**l, because they're scared of the socialist bogeyman.  OOGAH-BOOGAH!

Answer 4

That is a common question here, but I think relating abortion to capital punishment is oversimplifying both issues.

The most common response you'll see is along the lines of, "the unborn baby is innocent, but the death row inmate has done something to deserve death."

What I have YET to see is a compelling response to the issue of wrongful convictions.  In the last 30 years in the U.S., over 100 people have been released from death row because they were exonerated by DNA evidence. These are ALL people who were found guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.”  Unfortunately, DNA evidence is not available in most cases.

So as long as capital punishment is in place, you are pretty much GUARANTEED to occasionally execute innocent people.

I'd say that's a pretty steep price to pay for revenge.

Answer 5

So given the choice, you should be Pro-choice and pro-capital punishment? Huh, so you just think EVERYONES life is worthless. I'll let the guy who raped and burried ALIVE 10 year old Jessica Lusford that you're pulling for him. You'll have to call her father yourself.....

Answer 6

For many people they are separate issues.  Many base their opinions on religious beliefs.  However, you can make up your mind about the death penalty on purely pragmatic grounds, by looking at the death penalty system in action.  Here's some of what you find (sources below):

129 people on death rows have been released with proof that they were wrongfully convicted. DNA, available in less than 10% of all homicides, can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.

The death penalty doesn't prevent others from committing murder. No reliable study shows the death penalty deters others. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in those that don’t.

Life without parole, on the books in 48 states, also prevents  reoffending. It means what it says, and spending 23 of 24 hours a day locked in a tiny cell is not a picnic. Life without parole costs less than the death penalty.

The death penalty is much more expensive than life in prison, mostly because of the upfront costs of legal process which is supposed to prevent executions of innocent people. (upfront=before and during the initial trial)

The death penalty isn't reserved for the worst crimes, but for defendants with the worst lawyers. It doesn't apply to people with money. When is the last time a wealthy person was on death row, let alone executed?

The death penalty doesn't necessarily help families of murder victims. Murder victim family members have testified that the drawn-out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.

Problems with speeding up the process. Over 50 of the innocent people released from death row had already served over a decade. Speed up the process and we will execute innocent people.

Sources:

Death Penalty Information Center, www.deathpenaltyinfo.org,  for stats on executions, reports on costs, deterrence studies, links to FBI crime stats and links to testimony (at state legislatures) of victims' family members.

FBI   http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/tab...  

The Innocence Project, www.innocenceproject.org

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/COcostte... page 3 and 4 on why the death penalty is so expensive

http://www.njadp.org/forms/signon-surviv... for statements of victims’ families

Answer 7

And she favors the death penalty! "Oh, I love people and living life, but I don't mind killing people". You don't tell a kindergartner "Go ahead and hit someone back if they hit you"-you tell them not to hit back. Just because someone kills doesn't give you the right to kill them. They should just spend life in prison, that would actually be MORE effective than mindlessly ending a human being's life. You cannot be pro life, but support capital punishment-it's against the laws of nature for things to be contradicted in that way. Sarah Palin said "We have a right to know that someone who rapes and murders a child or kills an innocent person in a drive-by shooting will never be able to do that again". Come back down to Earth Miss Palin! There will ALWAYS be murderers in this world, killing one or even a few thousand won't help. Palin also said that she wants to deny state health benefits to same-s*x couples. OK Miss Palin, if a homosexual becomes seriously ill, you don't want to help them live? And you're pro life? Isn't a human being a human being? I just don't get it. And she supports the war in Iraq?!?! She even supported a controversial predator-control program involving aerial hunting of wolves to increase moose populations for hunters! Killing an animal for meat is fine, but randomly killing innocent wolves or any animal is cruel. And, she wants to kill wolves to allow higher populations for moose hunting?!?! That's like killing 2 animals at once! She even supports the NRA. Guns only have one meaning and it is death. Put it all together. I don't think that she knows that she is doing the same thing she wants to end. John McCain hasn't even known her for that long, it's like getting married after the first date. One thing I do believe is that she has a heart. She is a good, caring mother and is really nice, but what she does is not pro life.

Answer 8

Since you must have missed it the first 500 times this has been answered, please carefully read answer #501. One can be pro life, and advocate the protection of the unborn and innocent while at the same time advocating the death penalty for a grown adult who mad a clear choice to commit a heinous act against society. The unborn child made no choice, and has done nothing wrong, whereas the murderer made a choice to pursue a lifestyle of crime.  I too support the war in Iraq, and actually served. maybe you should try it sometime, you might gain more insight, and wouldnt need to ask such blind questions.

Answer 9

Against the killing of innocent fetuses, and for the execution of tried and convicted murderers.

If you do not understand the difference between the two of these, perhaps you should seek some spiritual counseling.  

Answer 10

When was the last time a fetus got a furlough by mistake or escaped from prison and committed a murder while running free by accident?

That's what I thought.

On the other hand, there was a whole family of four in Connecticut a few years ago who were murdered in their own home in their sleep during the holiday season when two idiots, one of whom was on death row, were released by accident during an overcrowding sweep.  The father was a doctor, and the two daughters were like 11 and 14.  They were the future of the country, and they were murdered by lowlives that should have been zapped in the chair before there could be such a mistake made.

Am I coming close to answering your question, or are you just going to continue down your path of blinky-eyed bewilderment?