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Default Re: Death Penatly/Capital Punishment: What is our stance? - 04-14-2005, 11:15 AM

Hare Krishna

One issue with this is the fallibility and corruption in law
enforcement. Many people who have been executed were in fact innocent
of the specific crime of which they were convicted. Perhaps it can be
assumed that a so-called innocent person who was executed had
temporarily escaped punishment in a previous birth, but that seems to
be pretty shaky ground to stand upon.

By Manu's standards, nearly every person presently inhabiting Earth
would be throughly condemned, although I can't argue with that.
Animal killing is simply horrible. Still, it seems like more than we
can handle, to push for the execution of meat eaters. It's the kind
of thing that it might be better to leave up to the due course of
time, while purifying the whole scene by chanting Hare Krishna.

Hare Krishna

your servant,
Pandu das
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