Canada does not have the death penalty in their judicial system. They feel it is cruel and unusual punishment for a proven hardened criminal to lose his life. I won't argue one way or the other as it is the law. It's the moral path they want to follow.
Today, however, they are veering terribly off that righteous path. A family there has a child who is on life support and the doctors had determined the baby is in a vegetative state and want to pull the plug. The family would like to take the baby home to die peacefully in the midst of their family. The courts have stepped in and denied them this one comfort as they lose their little child. Not only has the court decided when to pull the life support, they have also said that as soon as the machines are turned off, they will administer a lethal injection to kill the baby.
I read recently that some of our states here in America had to revamp the lethal injection for carrying out the death penalty as it was painful for the criminal. What a world-wide travesty of justice that today an infant will not be given the chance/regard of a murderer or worse? Why is the court system so intent on inflicting so much pain on a family who has spent time watching the death of their baby come about? An innocent child is murdered while a murderer is coddled. Where is the justice in that? Where is the Christian attitude in that?
I'm thinking that every doctor, judge, nurse who participates in this awful event is going to have to eventually admit their wrong doing before God and hope that God grants them more mercy than they gave a tiny child.
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