justice not death
I, Judge Brady, am sentencing Paula Pretty to a life in prison with no possibility of parole for the murder of a 16 year old female. My decision to oppose the death penalty is based on moral, practical, as well as constitutional grounds. I realize that many of my voters do not support me in my decision, however, I cannot go against my strong belief of a persons right to life. My job as a judge is to uphold the constitution and judge the actions of the accused, not the accused. I am a judge, not God, and I have not been granted the authority to judge a human The death penalty is immoral and places the state in the role of God, and it has no authority to take upon this role. "The author of the moral law is God," (Stace p.172) and not the state. Therefore, I, as a judge, must uphold the state's laws as well as God's moral laws, in which both prohibit murder. We live in a democracy where we all have a say in what our government can and cannot do, therefore, practicing the death penalty places all of us in the role of executioner, and brutalizes and degrades our society for doing so. I, nor anyone else, is in the position to judge a human
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Approximate Word count = 1369
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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