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While the Bible very clearly condones and commands capital punishment, there are verses that can be interpreted as opposing the practice. For example, when Cain murdered Abel, God sentenced him to wandering as a fugitive rather than to death, and even issued a warning against killing Cain. A similar sentiment is suggested in Proverbs 28:17.
Dulles argues that the Church teaches that punishments, including the death penalty, may be levied for four reasons: [22] Rehabilitation – The sentence of death can and sometimes does move the condemned person to repentance and conversion. The death penalty may be a way of achieving the criminal's reconciliation with God.
Christian protester at the Utah State Capitol, holding a sign citing Matthew 25:40 as evidence against the morality of the death penalty. Christian tradition from the New Testament have come to a range of conclusions about the permissibility and social value of capital punishment. [14]
Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death. [1] [2] It was used as a punishment by the Persians, Carthaginians, and Romans, [1] among others. Crucifixion has been used in some countries as recently as the 21st century. [3]
The death penalty is sought in only a fraction of murder cases, ... In Maryland, for example, between 1978 and 2008, taxpayers paid more than $37 million per prisoner executed.
These include the death penalty not only for murder, but also for idolatry, [7] homosexuality, [8] adultery, witchcraft and blasphemy. [9] Most Calvinists reject Christian reconstructionism and hold to classical covenant theology, which is the traditional Calvinist view of the relationship between the Old Covenant and Christianity. [10]
Many Christian martyrs were executed under the Islamic death penalty for defending their Christian faith through dramatic acts of resistance such as refusing to convert to Islam, repudiation of the Islamic religion and subsequent reconversion to Christianity, and blasphemy toward Muslim beliefs. [36]
A court in Pakistan sentenced a Christian man to death for sharing what it said was hateful content against Muslims on social media after one of the worst mob attacks on Christians in the eastern ...