A common argument against capital punishment is made by misquoting the sixth commandment in saying it says thou shalt not kill.The reality is that it says thou shalt not murder.Any beginning student of the Bible will confirm this fact.Interestingly, the death penalty was never questioned as an appropriate punishment for murder until the last 50 years when man sought to reinterpret the Word of God. So what has this mindset wrought? Record murder rates and record numbers of people in prison.Capital punishment is a controversial topic and one major faith based in Rome has wrongly spoken out against it but they sadly ignore scripture in doing so. Look to Numbers 35:17-21,and if you choose to dismiss the Old Testament, there is 1 John 3:15 to show you the error of doing so.
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