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Depends on whether that someone made a mistake or not.

Sounds like we are all under some kind of judgment due to Adam's sin. Is this you talking, or is this biblical? Something that is never defined such in the bible. What we were told would happen is that Adam was made from dust and would return to dust. Where did the spiritually dead stuff come...

This is an important point, as a jury can't be legally held accountable for a poor judgment. They all disappear back into civilian life the same, whether they judged righteously or not, only to appear on another jury with no questions allowed about prior jury decisions.

When I was on a jury once, the judge carefully instructed us on the "beyond reasonable doubt" criterion. He was adamant that we not consider it to be "no doubt whatsoever", because there is always some doubt. If there is some doubt, then 100% proof of guilt cannot be established. If it cannot be...

Reasonable doubt is not no doubt at all. You say you are ok with our current system, but our current system does not require 100%. That would be beyond a shadow of doubt. So which is it for you? Reasonable doubt (<100%) or beyond a shadow of doubt (100%)?

Um...you use examples where cases were not proven 100% to say the standard of 100% is possible, and you complain about me not having much of a point?

You've set up an impossible standard, one you've just admitted you can't follow. And because you can't know which are 100% proven and which aren't, Your only option is to do away with the death penalty in its entirety. Since the OP is about properly enforcing something you don't support at all...

Can you guarantee 100% in any case you didn't witness yourself?

"Some value" is not a valid standard. God did away with Adam and Eve based on their sin, but they still had value to Him, because they were made in His image.

Measuring from sentence to execution, it takes more than twelve years to carry out fully reviewed death sentences in the United States. Yet in death penalty cases, full and timely review is not assured. At year-end 2005, 43 percent of those sentenced to death between 1973 and 2005 were still in...

Are you able to determine if someone is guilty 100% of the time? God recognizes the value of appeal, but doesn't require it. The first thing we could do is eliminate automatic appeal of all death penalty sentences, right?

Absolutely. But that doesn't include the protocol of "never execute anyone." Here's a good one: Deuteronomy 21:1-9 KJV — If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: Then thy elders and thy judges...

I can't. Jesus Christ can, and will.

I'm not sure why incarcerating an innocent man for life is that much better than executing him.

Exactly. We are reconciled to God by Christ's death. Even the infants! How do we know they are reconciled to God by Christ's death? Because they also will be resurrected. Death shall be conquered for them. We aren't saved yet, according to Rom 5:10--"We SHALL be saved..." Thus, they die, just...

I thought Jesus' death on the cross, paying the penalty for sin, was what restored the "alive-ness". If separation is the problem, then we can't fix the problem just by not being separated anymore (i.e., just suddenly having a relationship with God). If this is true, then it suggests that...

They do die, all the time. Abortion is a case where babies have no time to sin, yet they die.

Yet, children still die. If the wages of sin is death, why do they receive those wages?

@JudgeRightly and @Clete I tend to agree with you--that there are differing ages when people should be held accountable, maybe even different ages in the same person for different things. Some of Clete's post's scripture was relating to military service, and I remember hearing one pastor...

I'm curious about whether the age of accountability would set a lower limit on whom we should witness to, because if they aren't accountable for evil, can they be accountable for good, or at least for a permanent, everlasting decision?