Moral issues and the Justice system or something like that

Indeed. And in that vein, here’s an interesting thought experiment for Faith to consider:It is pretty much inevitable that with the death penalty, innocent people will be executed from time to time. We have an irrefutable and heavy line of evidence from numerous examples of miscarriages of justice. It will happen.So a society which wants the death penalty should have a referendum every 5 years or so as to whether they want the death penalty. But in this referendum, your choice is recorded with your identity.If the referendum chooses the death penalty, (in the sure and certain knowledge that at some point an innocent person will be wrongfully put to death), then a murder will have been committed by that society - or more pertinently, by the people in that society who voted for the death penalty, knowing that this would happen.So at that point, we have a lottery from amongst those people who voted for the death penalty, and we put one of them to death, as a punishment for that murder having been committed by society.It’s fair that this should be the case.I wonder how many people would vote yes, knowing that this could be the consequence for them.

It’s murder, not justice, when it’s carried out against an innocent person. That was very much the point of my post.

The conviction of the innocent person is the mistake.The decision to kill convicted people (instead of locking them up for life) knowing that mistakes will happen when it comes to convicting people, is a deliberate choice which you know will, from time to time, kill innocent people. Because mistakes are inevitable. The death sentence is therefore murder when it is carried out on an innocent person.

So what you’re saying is, that when it comes to your religion, it’s your interpretation of your holy book which counts - but that when it comes to other folks’ religions, it’s your interpretation which counts ?