Do you support the concept of the death penalty?

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By this, I mean the idea of the death penalty and not how it is given institutionally. In other words, if you were sure someone was guilty of murder in a perfect system with a "humane" form of execution, would you support it?

I've always found it interesting how many those of faith approve of the death penalty even though it runs counter to many of the ideas and tenets of most religions. I'd like to see how Atlas pans out on this issue.

Myself, I follow Catholic teaching on this issue so I'm strongly in the No column, religious of course.

[Türkisblau]

This forum is going to be a very very different sample from the public I think, lol.

I'd like to see how Atlas pans out on this issue.

[Türkisblau]

Does this include, for example, killing Osama bin Laden?

This means executing someone deliberately, not in combat.

[Türkisblau]

Yes.

What does "religious" really mean?  I mean, I call myself a Lutheran but have drifted into the C&E Club.  I have an extraordinarily liberal interpretation of the Bible and a rather unorthodox view of God, but I'm not an atheist.

I used it as kind of a catch all and used "consider yourself religious" in order to get self-interpretation in there.

Interesting results so far!