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if you think allowing other people to marry the person of their choice curtails your "religious liberty," you're a religious fanatic who does not belong in government.

Hi Nick, I greatly respect you. You are a fighter for life. Thank you for sharing your perspective. I don’t think those who support the death penalty are themselves personally inhumane and did not say that in my post. I think the death penalty itself is inhumane in a nation where we can effectively secure violent offenders and prevent them from harming others. The ancient Israelites did not have the prisons we have today, which made the death penalty acceptable under those circumstances, as a means of protecting the public from the criminal. But the Bible doesn’t mandate the death penalty for modern America. Today we have the ability to imprison violent offenders for life. Taking their lives is unnecessary to protect the common good. Whether the death penalty is justified does not depend on the degree of confidence in a criminal’s guilt. In the modern world, the death penalty is unjust even for those we know are guilty. A crime, even a horrific crime, does not erase the criminal’s humanity. We have a duty to protect the public and to protect the innocent. But vengeance is the Lord’s alone. There is also a separate concern that I find compelling: entrusting the government—with all its capacity for overreach, corruption, bias, and human error—with the ultimate and irreversible power to take the life of one of its citizens. Our government has made terrible mistakes, and you have been a stalwart critic of government overreach and corruption. In my view, the most conservative position would be to say that, in modern America, the State should not wield the irreversible power of execution when it can protect society through life imprisonment instead.

Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion,’ but says, ‘I’m in favor of the death penalty,’ is not really pro-life.”

The consistent pro-life position is the Catholic one. No abortion, no euthenasia, no death penalty.

Sexual immorality isn’t two guys getting married. It’s seven guys treating a young woman like an object instead of a fellow human being made in the image of God.

Reminder that the death penalty—& all the support for it—is completely antiChrist. America remains one of the few countries to continue to embrace this violent ideology, since American Christianity has most often worshiped a god of death instead of the Lord of the Resurrection.

You cannot be pro life and pro death penalty.

In a nation with maximum security prisons and the possibility of making mistakes with death penalty convictions, the death penalty is both unnecessary and inhumane.

is there a fairytale that exists where the guy gives up everything for love and it's considered a happy ending? Because when a woman sacrifices her identity for a man, it's “true love,” but when a man is expected to sacrifice, suddenly it’s oppression.

It doesn't matter if domestic violence charges were dropped against the holdout Clancy juror. The allegation alone is enough to bias him against women, thus disqualifying him from a case that revolves around female biology. That doesn't mean she's innocent. It's procedure.

People are upset that @NBC10Boston did their job and reported news. But they’re not upset that the holdout juror had a restraining order is accused of strangling his wife and possibly lied on his jury selection paper. How is somebody with a current restraining order seated on a jury. Just another example of how ridiculous Plymouth County is….

EXCLUSIVE: The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the @NBC10Boston Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members. Watch at 4p, 5p, and 6p and on our digital platforms. nbcboston.com

The biggest mistake trial lawyers make is underestimating the intelligence of jurors. When you pull cheap tricks like unnecessarily shoving graphic images in their faces over and over again, they know they’re being manipulated and you lose them.

Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin tells @gayleking that the holdout juror was a Black man, whom she estimates is in his 30s. Devlin says after watching a video of an interview with Clancy, the holdout juror “realized that it wasn’t murder in the first degree,” adding the jury “saw his doubt.” The judge declared a mistrial after the jury was deadlocked 11-1. Devlin also shares what the jury discussed during deliberations and the impact of testimony from Patrick Clancy.