How can any religious person justify capital punishment in the name of their religions?

read what crime is doing to us and our home G-D said to get it far from you. our sin corrupts the earth that we live .have you read the part that G-D told Israel that there land would vomit them out of there if they didn't follow the Rules that G-D set down through Moses.

i am a Baptist and i believe in capital punishment however this is a very touchy subject for me. in the old testament people were executed by stoning. i believe in capital punishment if the person did something really horrible like killing repeatedly or killing a child or something like that. i don't believe in it if the person were justified as in protecting themselves or family in danger. however i believe there are a lot of people on death row that really are innocent. it is my belief that they should only get death row if there is absolutely no doubt at all that they did it and nobody else could have. obviously there are problems in our system or there wouldn't be any innocent people on death row but i also believe that with technology improving the way it is that someday those problems will be resolved.

If it's provided for in the religion, it would go against their religion if the capital punishment due is not carried out - that's being religious. These are god's laws that must be obeyed. Does all these make any moral sense? or any kind of sense? i don't buy it.

I think all religions believe in existance of God. And God being creator of life NEVER gave any authority to any person to take away any ones life.

These are social issues and some people who think they have the right to do so, are doing it.

No it should not be there and be banned.

bravy...ever read the Old Testament?

God gave the Israelites LOTS of reasons to meet out capital punishment.

by the law a murder MUST be put to death, or the sin becomes the peoples sin of murder!

See L.A. S.Frisco Phoenix AZ NY I could go on.

victims outnumber murders 10 to 1.

Like Dubya? He says he is pro life but is for death penalty. I thought pro life people were supposed to be pro EVERY life

Num 35:16 `And if with an instrument of iron he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

Num 35:17 `And if with a stone in the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

Num 35:18 `Or with a wooden instrument in the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

Num 35:19 `The redeemer of blood himself doth put the murderer to death; in his coming against him he doth put him to death.

Num 35:21 or in enmity he hath smitten him with his hand, and he dieth; the smiter is certainly put to death; he is a murderer; the redeemer of blood doth put the murderer to death in his coming against him.

Num 35:31 `And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who is condemned--to die, for he is certainly put to death;