It has been used in various crimes ranging from rape to the more recent crimes of terrorism and mass murders. ... The majority of their evidence comes from the Old Testament of the Bible in which it recommends the use of capital punishment for a certain number of crimes. There are also other people that quote the Sixth Commandment which reads, "Thou Shall Not Commit Murder." However, these interpretations of various passages from the either the Bible or the Commandments are often quoted out of context which then corrupts the sympathetic attitude of Judaism and Christianity, in which they both...

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