re: Execution in Louisiana - Hearing set re Religious Claims

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What if, in the nearly 30 intervening years, he truly did find true redemption and reformation into a decent man no longer capable of such senseless violence? Both Christianity and biology give credence to the thought - the New Testament teaches limitless forgiveness while neuroscience tells us that the brain isn’t fully developed until around age 25. Like the Ship of Theseus, the man who was killed in 2025 could bear no resemblance to the one who committed an atrocity in 1996 either spiritually or neurally.

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I mean yeah, people change in 30 years. Especially when they spend those 30 years on death row. But he wasn’t sentenced to death last week; he was sentenced in 1998.

By the way, part of the reason he’s been on death row so long is that Hoffman was the original plaintiff in the 2012 lawsuit claiming that Louisiana’s lethal injection protocol also constituted “cruel and unusual punishment.”

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Just food for thought - it’s a little disturbing to see so many self-proclaimed Christians reveling in someone’s death.

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I have lost four friends to murder. In one of the cases, the perpetrator has never been found. I’m in touch with the sibling of that victim, and have seen what an unsolved murder does to the surviving family. Another of the cases was an especially heinous crime, in which the victim was held for several weeks before being strangled. She had been a shining light whose life, had she been allowed to live it out, would have improved the planet in countless ways. Do not talk to me about “Christian” values. Murderous scum should be eliminated ASAP so that the survivors can heal, and move on as much as possible.