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Pariah said:
If he's truly turned over a new leaf, then he won't have to suffer hell when his body expires.

Kill him.



Actually, that's not all that far off from my own beliefs, which are rooted in Judaism.

According to Jewish law, when a person is obligated to be put to death, there is no way out of it. The reason for the death penalty is not to remove a bad person from this world. For some crimes, the only physical punishment is death, and when a person guilty of such a crime accepts that punishment, and atones beforehand, the death penalty can act as the method of his final atonement, and his crime is forgiven by God.

If these people who claim to have found religion and reformed truly believe in God and in the next world, then they have nothing to fear, and they should use their punishment as their means of atonement. If they do this, I believe they will find forgiveness. However, when they try to escape their physical punishment, then like Pariah said, the punishment that awaits them is far greater than anything they could ever experience in this world.

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