Is God sending all of us a message about the death penalty? Did He perform a miracle to save the killer Ms. Pike?
Is God sending all of us a message about the death penalty? Did He perform a miracle to save the killer Ms. Pike? Did God intervene? I believe maybe He did. I do not believe in the death penalty, abortion, or euthanasian, they are all forms of murder and wrong in my Catholic faith opinion. In the Ten Commandments, it tells us to "do not kill." I do not like this nor agree with it. Pike was accused and trialed for the murder of Colleen Slemmer, she tortured and murdered her. It was horrific. Pike was an abused person herself, Pike's childhood was marked by sexual abuse, neglect and rape. She was first raped by her grandmother's boyfriend when she was a small child. Pike was raped again by a neighbor when she was 11. Pike first attempted to take her own life when she was only 12 years old. Then when Pike was 17, she was pulled into the woods and was beaten and again raped by a stranger. She had a horrible life, then did a horrible thing, killing someone else. None of i...