HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD, TOM DOOLEY

On July 4, 2002, a man shot a New York policeman 15 times, drove over him with a car, then shot the officer twice more, in his face. 

 

In 1997, a man kidnapped his former boss, 76, and then tortured, killed, and dismembered him — with a hacksaw. Later, he murdered a man in a bar fight. A detective described him as "the most cunning, evil, sadistic person that I ever investigated."

 

STILL LIVING?

In 2015, those two men shouldn't have been, but they were. And there they were, the object of a million dollars a day manhunt, with the final total at $21 million of the taxpayers' hard earned money. Not only that, but they were terrorizing law-abiding men, women, and children who were locking their doors day and night, keeping their children inside, and looking over their shoulders with fear that one or both of the men might be behind them. 1,300 men had to go gunning for those two for three weeks in the jungles of Upper New York State, taking them away from their families and regular duties as law enforcement officers.

Finally, the authorities killed one of them, shot and captured the other one who was running away, back towards the tangled woods from which he had come. The officer shot him right square in the back twice as he was fleeing. (A round of applause for the officer.)

HEAR THE SOBBING?

Wouldn't you know it: this raised a hue and cry from some who thought that shooting a man in the back was somehow not the way to handle the matter. But it's all well, good, and proper to shoot a fleeing felon in the head, chest, or back. What if he'd made it back into the dense woods of Upper New York State, and what if he'd killed more people after that? But no. For some, they must shed tears for a monster shot in the back.

Sane people would say that those two men earned the bullets that brought them down, and they'd be right, but a better comment would be, "They shouldn't have been."

This is one more classic example of how the farther away from the Bible a society gets, the higher the price that society has to pay. The manhunt, terror, and fear shouldn't have been because those two shouldn't have been. 

 

HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD, TOM DOOLEY

They should have been dead long ago, not serving "life terms with no possibility of parole." Genesis 9 says that they should have been dispatched with extreme prejudice way back when. Genesis 9 is the record of when God instituted government into the human race, giving it the authority to execute murderers. If any two people deserved to ride Old Sparky, face a firing squad, or a feel a noose tightening around their throats, those two did.

 

THE UNBEARABLE BEAR REPUBLIC

 

As an act of accumulating defiance against God, as of April, 2015, 746 people sit on death row in California awaiting execution because the powers that be are studying the issue of capital punishment. Included in those 746 are Charles Manson and Richard Davis, the killer of 12-yr. old Polly Klaas who was murdered 22 years ago. (!) Manson and Davis, along with the 744 others will die of boredom before they meet the needle or inhale the gas in the Bear Republic.

Those two New York murderers aren't the only two who have been spared the death penalty and escaped to wreak havoc, terror, and kill again. If you'd like to read the accounts of the many killers who escape from prison, go to ProDeathPenalty.com, but before you do, you need a great deal of time to read through the list. Then go and lock your doors and secure your windows.

 

THE DEFIANT ONES

 

Do not think this defiance of God is only an American aberration:

 

The UN voted to abolish the death penalty in 1994 and . . .

 

"Since 2007, the European Day against the Death Penalty is celebrated by the Council of Europe every year on October 10,  along with the World Day against the Death Penalty. The European Union has joined this initiative as from its second edition in 2008. 

 

"The aim of the European Day against the Death Penalty is to achieve a complete abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances in Europe, to support efforts by the international community to introduce a world-wide moratorium and, ultimately, universal abolition of the death penalty, to react against attempts to re-establish the death penalty, and to raise the awareness of the public about the fact that the death penalty is a travesty of justice. Every European and World Day against the Death penalty is marked by a joint declaration issued by the Council of Europe and the European Union."

 

As of February 2015, 99 countries have banned capital punishment, showing that this manifestation of defiance against God is one of Satan's worldwide strategies. 

 

In March 2015, Pope Francis issued a strong statement against the death penalty when he wrote: "Today the death penalty is inadmissible, no matter how serious the crime committed. Capital punishment contradicts God's plan for man and society and does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance." (What Bible is he reading?)

 

WHY HAVE IT?

 

Capital punishment shows the value of human life. To kill a man is not like killing an animal or destroying  plant. Capital punishment is a statement that man is a special creation of God, a creation created in His image and likeness; therefore, his life is precious to God. 

 

Does the New Testament give the thumbs up to the death penalty. Yes, in Romans 13.  

We read the accounts of the manhunt for two men who shouldn't have been alive to escape. In California we read of 746 who shouldn't be. We look at the worldwide secular and religious demands to abolish the death penalty.

 

That's the way it is on this, the defiant planet.