I stumbled across Chuck Currie's blog recently, and hope to meet him someday. He's an advocate for the poor and a United Church of Christ minister here in Portland.
Chuck has a good summary of world Christian reaction to Saddam Hussein's execution. He certainly deserves to die, but was it right to kill him? I have become increasingly convinced that to "kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong" is unreasonable, morally wrong, and against Jesus' teaching. It also does not work as a deterrent, according to studies I've heard about. And some have said that if capital punishment is wrong, it's always wrong.
Something to think about.
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