We can see in the Old Testament that God is pro death penalty when it comes to people who have committed murder. The first evidence in the Old Testament comes from Genesis 9:6 which states, "Whoever sheds blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image." ... In Job the reference to the sword is made as the tool of punishment, this coincides with New Testament teachings of Paul as he writes to Rome and sates in Romans 13:3-4, "For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. ... Even here in the Old Testament we see in Deuteronomy 17:12-13 that the dea...

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I. Introduction Capital Punishment or Death Penalty is a penalty of death imposed on a criminal convicted of a serious crime. The word "capital" in "Capital punishment" refers to a person's head. The usual alternative to the death penalty is a long-term or life imprisonment. The earliest h...

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Jones was convicted in 1989 before DNA tests were available, but when they were made available in 2000, the request for a DNA test was ignore, and Jones was executed. In 2007, the Innocence Project filed a law suit requesting for the hair so that it could undergo DNA testing. ... In the Old Testament, God's rules did in fact say that certain sins were punishable by death. ...

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Imagine a psychological test for high school students where it is shown that those who fail are as likely to commit a future crime as are those arrested for having committed that crime in the past. ... If it is right to kill to prevent a future crime, then we are just as justified to kill 4 those students who failed the test, as we are those who have committed the murder. ...

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This man was executed after Governor's denial of a DNA test that O?... We can probably expect to continue hearing many churchgoers of whatever denomination referring to the Old Testament phrase,An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. ...

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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. ... By a wide margin, the American public believes that the most significant development in the death penalty in recent years has been the advent of DNA testing and the proof that many who were sentenced to death were innocent. ...

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