A Sacrifice in Vain: Death Penalty

If we follow Mauss line of thinking in “The Sacrifice” all death penalties are indirect sacrifices to fix something in society; the real question is: do they really fix something in society?; the answer is no.

Death penalty only satisfies the person who demands (what they think is) justice; but from that death comes rebellion, depression or a sick way of thinking regarding to the value of life.

When people makes a call for “justice” to society they certainly don’t know what they’re doing. If justice comes from God, how a man can make it?. Death penalty is a crime worse than the one that provoked it.

Even understanding that the accused deserves it, we need to hold on; for people to think that death to the accused is worse than to live with the guilt, they are partially right as wrong.

Some of the accused must not feel regret because of a mental disorder or values; those should be designed to a mental hygiene faculty. Those who feel guilt and are accused to death penalty might suffer their life in a day, but might find death more like an escape than as a curse, living with the guilt helps them to fix independently those areas that are wracked.

But, why death?; we must have in mind that God is the provider of justice and when he gave his son in cross our sins were covered by blood; we are clean only through Jesus. He died for the humanity; not only for the ones who believe in him but for the ones that doesn’t. He was the perfect sacrifice so no other sacrifice can lead to a better society than the sacrifice of nailing our flesh to the cross and living for God. The only sacrifice that can save us is the sacrifice of something of value to us; not other people, not criminals but our life.

So instead of depraving our society we have to give them the chance to change. Learn to do mercy and love for the one who died for us already paid the price.