Gisella,
We will be judged, after we die. What happens between people in life should always be between them, not them and a third party (the state).
So the woman killed someone and she’s going to be executed by a man, who doesn’t know her and whom she hasn’t wronged. So, technically, on your premise – a life for a life, so who’s going to kill th executioner in the prison?
Who is the criminal – the one who calls for the crime to be committed or the one who commits the crime? We are told that both are guilty. A classic example is when there’s a sting operation on the mafia and they go up as high as they can, to frame them also for the murder, along with the murderers below them. However, where is the punishment of the politicians, who call for war? Where is the punishment of Bush, Blair, Brown, Clinton, Powell, Rice, Albright, Rumsfield, Kissinger etc etc? What makes them any different to the mafia dons? In fact, how can you compare a mafia don, who may order the killing of a couple of individuals from another crime family, to a politician, responsible for calling for the invasion of a country and the murder of hundreds of thousands and subsequent destruction of millions of people’s lives thereafter?
There’s a good part in the Godfather when that precisely happens, with Michael having been back in America for a year, after hiding in Sicily for the murder of the police chief protecting the ‘Turk’ who ordered the hit on his father and having a conversation with his future wife, Kay:
KAY: “But you’re not like him, Michael. I thought you weren’t going to become a man like your father. That’s what you told me…”
MICHAEL: “My father’s no different than any other powerful man —
(then, after Kay laughs) — Any man who’s responsible for other people. Like a senator or a president”.
KAY: “You know how naive you sound”?
MICHAEL: Why?
KAY: “Senators and presidents don’t have men killed…”
MICHAEL: “Oh — who’s being naïve, Kay”?
Whomever takes a life then their life is therefore forfeit in the context of an eye for an eye? More so, what makes the murder this woman has done, to any murder committed by a member of the western armed forces, in their invasions of the middle east? What makes her murder any different than the murder by the FBI on those in the Waco siege? There is no difference, yet, are those armed forces personnel, FBI and police in death row awaiting execution? Have many of those armed forces personnel not killed far, far more than the people on death row, people who never caused them or anyone of their nation harm, having just invaded their land?
If we’re going to get down to the nitty gritty, every armed force personnel, every policeman, every member of the security services should be treated no differently to those people on death row. You cannot differentiate between murders, whatever the reason. The outcome is the same – a dead body. There is of course a difference if you are being attacked, but well, we know the story about the aforementioned already, don’t we?
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