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Christians must oppose capital punishment because Our Lord Jesus Christ teaches in The Bible (John 8:7) that no one is pure enough to carry it out, even when the Law calls for it. And what we know about real life should convince any thoughtful person that the State is similarly unqualified. It is not a question of letting the guilty escape their just deserts. There is simply too much room for error.
Reality is that innocent people also do get convicted, whether by the failure of due process, the persistent legacy of racism or deliberate malice. The Bible teaches us that any who attempt to secure the conviction of an innocent person should suffer the penalty they intended for their victim: Punish the false witnesses as they tried to punish the defendant (Deuteronomy 19:19) Until advocacy for capital punishment includes the old-fashioned idea of making prosecutors pay for wrongful convictions with their own lives, it will lack any toe-hold on the moral ground.
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an alternative view by gbaughma
With prisons over-populated, and it costing roughly $30,000 a year to keep a person in prison, there is an argument towards the death penalty right there.
Of course, if you'd rather look at the bible...
Leviticus, Chapter 24:
24:20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again. 24:21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
... the bible clearly says that if someone kills someone else, they shall be put to death.
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