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What if the death penalty debate in the U.S. was such that the death penalty was largely supported by secular leftists and largely opposed by Christians?

Some Christians oppose the death penalty on the grounds that criminals should be given the maximum amount of time to repent of their sins, lest they die and go to hell.

(I used to be a member of the Left Behind message-board and there was a very strident pacifist who threatened people who supported the death penalty or the Afghan War with hell.)

However, secular leftists are much more likely to claim that evil people are psychopaths and sociopaths, who are essentially wired to be totally selfish and conscienceless and with no morals or remorse or capacity for empathy or forming emotional attachments, instead of claiming they're sinners in need of repentance.

If they're essentially wolves with human faces who cannot be redeemed (I've heard them described as "intraspecies predators"), killing them is the next logical step, the way one might put down a rabid dog or shoot a man-eating lion.

One board member said he'd support executing a serial killer if he was an unrepentant psychopath who was a continuous danger to others (and logically speaking, since psychopaths cannot feel remorse for their actions, they'll be unrepentant forever), while another board member said a person who cannot empathize by the age of six never will and should be euthanized.

I think a secular left that's more inclined toward eugenics would be a prerequisite for this scenario. And the Christians in this scenario would be much more inclined to reject the concept of personality disorders as being incompatible with Christianity--Romans 2, for example, seems to me to state that everyone has a conscience.

(The Christians who have issues with science tend to focus on evolution-related issues, although I did see a web-site claiming there was no such thing as a disease called alcoholism, only the sin of drunkenness.)
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