New Jersey – Some 50 rabbis in this state, including a number from this area, have written to the New Jersey Legislature urging it to abolish the death penalty.
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The legislature is poised to decide on this issue by the end of the current legislative session, Jan. 8, one year after the 13-member New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission recommended that the practice be abolished.
The rabbinic letter, together with a list of signatories, can be found at www.njadp.org. [jstandard]
The decision is short sighted. If the reason to abolish the death penalty is because people have been found to be innocent because the DNA didn’t match, what about the guy that it does match? If you want to protect the innocent don’t abolish the death penalty, raise the standard. Only in cases where there is DNA or only in cases where there is an eye witnesses. DNA should not only be used to acquit. It should be used to convict as well. The child rapist murderer whose DNA is found on 12 victims should not be the beneficiary of liberal Knee jerk mercy. He should be put to death. (Slowly and painfully if I had a say in it.)
Whether it’s mutar for goyim to have it in their courts, when there’s no beis hamikdosh, is a machlokes Rav Moshe (mutar) and Rav Soloveitchik (assur). Of course for Jews to have it is ossur.
“The earth can not be forgiven for the blood that was spilled on it, except through the blood of the spiller.” The death penalty is a simple matter of justice.
And not a SINGLE Shomer Torah U’mitzvos among them! Why??? Because most Shomer Torah U’mitzvos support or SHOULD SUPPORT the death penalty.
Sometimes, applying the death penalty could be highly valuable as
a deterrent. After the identity [of the perpetrator] has been established and all the appeals exhausted, there’s no reason NOT to execute the murderer. And in some extremely brutal cases the perpetrator forfeits their right to live. What, for example can console the survivors of the [sole]
breadwinner who was BRUTALLY gunned down in the course of an armed robbery at their place of work.