Two girls, 14 and 16 took a deadly shortcut through the woods on their way home one night in 1993. They walked into a gang initiation ritual and were raped and murdered. One killer was executed a year ago and two more received life sentences. Jose Medellin, a Mexican citizen was not given the opportunity to contact the Mexican Consulate before his trial. The World Court has asked for a delay in his execution to review the case. President George W. Bush concurs (publicly). Medellin executed for rape, murder of Houston teens
Jose Medellin was executed last night at 9:20pm after a 3 hour wait on an appeal from the Supreme Court. I would guess Antonin Scaila put down his guns long enough to answer the phone and scream KILL HIM [Scalia is the most outspoken good Christian on the Court). The big international issue is of course that Texas giving the rest of the world the finger puts all Americans in legal trouble overseas at risk. Especially regarding our troops being tried and executed by Iraq or Iran. We are going to really like that hey? Treat Americans like we treat whoever at Gitmo? Ha!
At one time I argued against Capital Punishment from a secular point of view, that it made us all guilty of murder while keeping that circle of vengeance forever spinning.
Lately I have come to see it more as I did as a once romantic young man. That violence is the human condition which requires goodness of a kind religion to stand against, to speak out to forgiveness and mercy, to be our conscience. A job for a Christian people. What a joke that turned out to be! Gosh…
The NEWS is not the parents of these girls spitting out their vengeful platitudes and the joy they are taking in having someone put to death. That is just people being less than they can be. Rather the NEWS should be when on rare occasions victims’ families forgive, have mercy and decry the execution as unneeded revenge.
Christianity has been so corrupted by the Republican Party it would no longer even be recognizable by its namesake. Rather than peace, love, mercy, forgiveness it has become a political hybrid of greed, intolerance, bigotry, gunplay, war and executions.
And even more sadly, no politician or anyone selling even the time of day can say so.