... purposes of preventing additional crimes by those who suffer from mental retardation is ludicrous. In this respect, the role of the death penalty can be seen, to use an old parable, as being nothing more than closing the barn door after the cow is already out. There is no purpose and no point to this extremely permanent end to a crime, where ... ...
... virtue; in fact it took nearly fifteen hundred years before anyone could follow up and expand on his works (Plato and Aristotle could grasp but not expand). To use Plato's parable, Socrates had brought the sun into the cave in order to show people how they should live their lives. To his detriment, he lacked the finesse of persuasion, only teaching ... ...
... under. It reads, "But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me." We see another parable given by Jesus in Luke 20:9-16 which illustrates that the proper punishment for murder is death. Even Jesus" apostle Paul shows that the death penalty is a just and permitted ... ...
