What do Christians think about capital punishment.?
I have always been against “Capital punishment” That was until I served on a Jury several years ago & I saw what one human being can do to another….that changed my mind….and I have still not come to terms with the heinous outcome I saw with my own eyes…Pictures are sometimes Morbid!! I am even at the point that: the person that kills someone should also have the same thing happen to him… Some people are just NOT human!!
I am a Christian and I am all for Capital Punishment. 2 years ago my mom, my grandmother and I were in our home on a Sunday morning when 2 people burst in, pistol whipped me and my mother and choked my grandmother who was on oxygen. After ransacking the house with me and my mom profusely bleeding from our heads, they took my mother in her own car across the county line and shot her between the eyes at point blank range. Both of the culprits have been found and admitted to it. One stands in court at trial and smirks at my grieving family. The other shows no remorse. It will be years before any true justice can be delivered. They both deserve a rope around their necks swiftly. If you wish to read the article on this story, type my name (Joel Uptagrafft) in your information bar and click on “Grieving Family Wishes to Thank Community”. I warn you , the story is sad. Capital Punishment should be about justice though and not vengeance. BTW, execution is NOT murder. Murder is the UNLAWFUL kil
It cannot be said that Jehovah is opposed to capital punishment per se, though he certainly does not approve of all executions. For disobedience to divine law, Adam and Eve suffered the death penalty, as God decreed. (Gen. 2:16, 17; 3:17-19; 5:5) Jehovah executed wrongdoers during the global flood of Noah’s day and in wicked Sodom and Gomorrah. (2 Pet. 2:5, 6) Through human authorities in ancient Israel, God sometimes had capital punishment carried out. (Ex. 32:27, 28; Num. 25:1-11) Furthermore, in the coming “great tribulation” Jesus Christ will execute blatant violators of divine law.—2 Thess. 1:6-9. Human authorities frequently have classed murder as a capital offense. What does God’s law say about it? “You must not murder,” states one of the Ten Commandments. (Deut. 5:17) The Christian apostle John wrote: “You know that no manslayer has everlasting life remaining in him.” (1 John 3:15; Rev. 21:8) When emotionally moved, perhaps by sensational journalism, some may feel that executio
