State's attempted murder fails
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- WHAT HAPPENED? Tennessee is set to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years (NPR) But something goes wrong, and she is heard snoring loudly. So they inject her again. And she snores again, even more loudly.
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| Peaceful demonstrators gather during March 4th "mercy demonstration" to stop death penalty in front of Tennessee State Capitol, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. ahead of the Sept. 30th scheduled execution of Christa Pike (George Walker IV/AP) |
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Time to end USA's barbaric death penalty
Capital punishment, also known as "the death penalty," formerly called judicial homicide [1, 2], which was changed because it sounded too much like it is, MURDER BY WE THE PEOPLE, is the state-sanctioned killing.
This kind of murder, which is really called the democide of a person as "punishment" for actual, suspected, or supposed misconduct [3].
The sentence ordering that an offender be "punished" in such a manner is called a death sentence, and the act of carrying it out is an execution.
A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is condemned and is commonly referred to as being "on death row" and while alive is usually referred to by cruel staff and fellow inmates as "dead man walking."
Etymologically, the term capital (lit. "of the head," a reference to decapitation, derives from the Latin capitalis, from caput, "head") refers to execution by beheading [4].
But there are various other methods of execution the state and its agents and cheerleaders enjoy -- all of them guilty, without seeming to know it or to care about it, of grave karmic offenses.
For to applaud, approve of, promote, speak in praise of, enable, and/or argue for, even in ignorance, will lead the doers to thereby face misery unutterable when their karma of grave wrong speech -- which is tantamount to murder (like a leader yelling "Fire!" in front of a death squad during an execution -- ripens and bears its bitter fruit in this and/or future lives. More
COMMENTARY
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| "Hang him high!" scream the murderers. |
Foremost among these is killing. So the question comes up, "What constitutes 'killing'?" As detailed in the Vinaya (Monastic Disciplinary Code), if a monastic were to so much as praise abortion, euthanasia, suicide, or any other kind of killing and it were to result in someone dying (by abortion, suicide, euthanasia, etc.) that monastic would instantly be guilty of the most grave defeat offense, murder, killing, wrong speech. That person would instantly not be a monk or nun and could never re-ordain in this lifetime. This person would face the karmic consequences of killing. How then could anyone think that encouraging, enabling, defending, praising, or otherwise promoting killing in the case of the death penalty (capital punishment) is a trivial or defensible thing?
There are only three reasons for bad karma (unskillful actions), and they are greed, hatred (which includes fear), and delusion (affection/attachment or aversion/cowardice or delusion/ignorance. One speaks and acts in ignorance with an aversion to murder and the murderer and thereby becomes a party to murder and therefore a murderer. What kind of foolishness is this? We will say we are innocent, that we didn't know, that we didn't mean it, that we were only following God's injunction and biblical interpretations by evil men and bad men of the church, patriarchs, fools... It will not matter. We will be guilty of murder just the same. Now one may bring up this poorly worded term "mercy killing" (a euphemism for euthanasia) and defend it, even as one has made excuses to imagine that abortion is fine and even good.
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| But I don't want to be killed. - Then don't kill. |
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