HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALAN KEYES! [PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTE OF THE WEEK ~ SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2013 TO SATURDAY 10 AUGUST 2013]

Alan Keyes was born on this date, 7 August 1950, he is 63 years old today. As I respect him for his conservative stance, I wish him a Happy Birthday and will post his Pro-Death Penalty Quote. 

Alan Keyes

 

QUOTE: Without death penalty for murder, we disregard life

Q: What is your position on the death penalty?

A: There are certain circumstances in which the death penalty is essential to our respect for life. If we do not in our law send the message to everybody that by calculatedly, coldly taking a human life in a way that assaults the structures of law in a society or shows a cold-blooded and studied disregard for the value of that life, if we are not willing to implement the death penalty in those circumstances, then we are actually sending a message of contempt for human life. We are encouraging people to believe that that step is not in fact a terminal step, when they fatefully and fatally decide to move against the life of another human being. So I think that there are circumstances under which it is essential, in fact, that we have and apply the death penalty in order to send a clear moral message to people throughout our society that we will not tolerate that kind of disrespect for life.

Source: GOP Debate in Manchester NH Jan 26, 2000

AUTHOR: Alan Lee Keyes (born August 7, 1950) is an American conservative political activist, author, former diplomat, and perennial candidate for public office. He ran for President of the United States in 1996, 2000, and 2008, and was a Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1988, 1992, and 2004. Keyes served in the U.S. Foreign Service, was appointed Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations under President Ronald Reagan, and served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1985 to 1987.