(Death Penalty Information Center Website) People justify the death penalty in saying that in the Bible God says that murder should be punished with death. There are many things in the Bible today however that Americans do not take follow. If we were to follow God's word as in the Bible, than we should not only be giving the capitol punishment to murderers, but to those guilty of homosexuality, adultery, incest, and kidnapping. In fact if we lived fully by the Bible, then 18 different crimes would be punishable by death. ... For example, the Innocence Project, organized by attorneys Ba...

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Depending on whose interpretation one hears, the Bible is for or against capital punishment. Verses from The Bible are used by both sides of the argument to support their own beliefs. ... One third cites The Bible that says "Thou shalt not kill....

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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. ... 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 clearly focuses on redemption and forgiveness, and urge humanity to be effective and just in dealing with crime and violence in society. Those who use the Bible to support the death penalty are pretty much alone...

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Society has dependably discipline to dishearten would be criminal from illegal activity. Since society has the most astounding enthusiasm for anticipating homicide, it ought to utilize the most grounded discipline accessible to deflect homicide, and that is capital punishment. On the off chance that...

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Sheena Thompson 1/2/02 English 10 Final Draft " Capital Punishment is the lawful infliction of the death penalty that is used to punish a wide variety of offense "(Bedau 1). The death penalty a regularly begin in the ancient times from the bible (Bedau 1). The reform death penalty begin in 1...

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Religious fanatics shout condemnations, families of lost ones want retribution, widows are left wondering why they ever got married in the first place, my mom sighs and wonder what the world is coming to as she reviews the death of a 24 year old boy convicted of a murder felony in 1968 (Oshinsky 3). ... Born into a Catholic family my foundation was built on thin bible pages and my vocab spewed out of "Hail Mary's" and "Our Fathers."" ...

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The Bible states in Exodus 21:12-17, "He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. ... And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death." " This may be the earliest indication of the death penalty in the Bible and these verses are giving circumstances where the death penalty would have been required for the people who lived during this crucial time of the Old Testament as they lived under the law. ... In a review of 1,300 murder cases in California between 2003 and 2005, the authors found gender disproportions with respect to both defendan...

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However, current research suggests that arguments in favor and against this issue date back to the dates of the bible and now that we"re nearly two million years later, it should come as no surprise that we"re still debating this hot topic. ...

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