Who Pays the Death Penalty in America? The Innocent or the Criminal?

We are living in an age of regression where the once Christian West and Protestant America have traveled backward into the time when Jesus Christ walked this earth. Back then the victim of the criminal was forced to carry the criminal’s cross because somehow the victim had caused the criminal (who had no free will) to do what he had done. 

And so it is today that criminals (who lack free will) are the victims of white social constructs, making the white victim–the fascist/racist/transphobic–the legitimate cause of his or her own murder at the hands of the ‘morally righteous criminal’. 2025@Linda

Virgil Walker, 9/12/25

Yesterday, I was listening to an interview when a wise soul said, “Every society has a death penalty. The only question is who pays it—criminals or the innocent.”

He’s right. In a just society, the guilty pay. In an unjust one, the innocent do. Scripture has been clear from the beginning: “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image” (Genesis 9:6). When justice is delayed or denied, it is not criminals who suffer—it is the vulnerable.

Charlie Kirk: A Political Assassination in Broad Daylight

Charlie Kirk wasn’t killed in a vacuum. He was assassinated with bullets inscribed with transgender ideology—a political murder in broad daylight. It was more than a failure of security. It was the fruit of a culture that emboldens evil while silencing truth.

And if the bullets weren’t enough, the aftermath drove the point home: people openly celebrated his death online. When murder becomes a meme and mockery replaces mourning, a society has already chosen sides—with the criminal, not the victim.

Charlie gave his life to awaken young people to truth. His murder, and the glee that followed it, is a chilling window into a culture where evil is applauded and righteousness is despised.

Iryna Zarutska: Innocence Slain on a Train

On a summer evening in Charlotte, Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, boarded a train after work. She never made it home. She was slaughtered by a man who should have been locked away long before. Thirteen arrests. Countless chances for the system to deliver justice. Every one of them wasted.

The courts spared the criminal. The price was her life.

Scripture warns us plainly: “Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil” (Ecclesiastes 8:11). Justice delayed doesn’t just embolden the wicked—it kills the innocent.

Criminal Cities, Corrupt Leaders

Look at Washington, D.C., Chicago, Baltimore—cities where Democrats run the show and criminals run the streets.

  • D.C.: Politicians reduce sentences while residents bury their loved ones.
  • Chicago: Mothers duck bullets while tucking their children into bed.
  • Baltimore: Teenagers walk to school past memorials of classmates who never made it home.

The pattern is the same. Politicians protect criminals. Citizens pay with their lives. This isn’t “social justice.” It’s state-sponsored injustice.

The Cost of Cowardice

Every society has a death penalty. Refuse to punish murderers and you are sentencing mothers, daughters, and sons to die. Pretend that crime is caused by poverty instead of evil, and you invite more bloodshed. Treat predators like victims, and you make victims of the innocent.

Of course justice must be careful. False convictions are tragic. But refusing to punish proven killers is worse—it guarantees more innocent deaths.

This is not compassion. It is cowardice dressed up as policy.

A Contrast in Leadership

When Donald Trump spoke of cracking down in D.C., he wasn’t courting applause. He was doing what leaders are supposed to do—protect the innocent by punishing the guilty. Romans 13 calls the magistrate “God’s servant, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.” That’s not cruelty. That’s mercy for the people.

Even imperfect leadership is better than leadership that sides with lawlessness.

The Choice Before Us

Every society has a death penalty. The question is not whether death will fall—it will. The question is who pays it.

  • Injustice means the innocent pay.
  • Justice means the guilty pay.

The blood of innocents is crying out from the ground. The only question is whether America will listen—or perish by protecting its criminals.

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1 thought on “Who Pays the Death Penalty in America? The Innocent or the Criminal?”

  1. I hereby extend my heartfelt condolences to the Charlie Kirk family and to all the other families victimized by heartless, morally twisted reprobates with murder and other evils in their hearts.
    As Christians, Charlie and I view with the same perpective, which is Truth. Our morals are based upon, and proceed from, that Truth which is Jesus Christ, along with other truths such as Justice and law and order which must be morally ordered as well – because an immoral law cannot be lawful.
    The morally disordered reprobates who live apart from Truth live apart from everything that’s true and good, which makes them lawless wretches and criminals seeking to create a lawless anti-social order which pleases themselves only. Call it Hell if you like.

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