The Biblical Truth About America'S Death Penalty,Used

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While secular support for capital punishment in America seems to be waning, religious conservatives, particularly in the 'Bible belt,' remain staunch advocates of the death penalty, citing biblical law and practice to defend governmentsanctioned killing. Dale S. Recinella compares biblical teaching about the death penalty, including such passages as 'eye for eye, tooth for tooth, life for life,' with the nation's current system of capital punishment, and offers persuasive arguments for a faithbased moratorium on and eventual abolition of executions.Framing his careful and incisive analysis as a legal brief to those who believe the Bible mandates the ultimate punishment, the author addresses two critical areas of inquiry: what do the scriptures tell us about who is deserving of death and who has the authority to kill, and what do they tell us about the required standards for execution and the plight of victims' families. Recinella's examination of the Hebrew Torah, or Christian Pentateuch, and the Talmud reveals that the biblical death penalty was not a simple system of swift retribution, but a complex and practical set of laws that guided capital courts established under the Sanhedrin. His scrutiny of these texts, the Christian doctrine of atonement, and Romans 13 in the Pauline Epistles, draws parallels between the traditional biblical arguments used in favor of capital punishment and those used as the basis for proslavery positions in the nineteenth century. Demonstrating that both approaches are unsubstantiated in biblical terms, Recinella debunks the accepted religious reasoning for support of the death penalty and shows instead that the Bible's strict conditions for sanctioning execution are at odds with the arbitrary ways in which capital punishment is administered in the United States. He provides convincing evidence that a sentence of death in today's criminal justice system in fact fails to meet both the Bible's exacting procedural requirements and its strict limitations on judicial authority.By providing actual scriptural language and foundation to counter the position that biblical truth justifies a prodeath penalty stance, this thoughtful, solidly researched, and wellreasoned work will give pause to religious fundamentalists and challenge them to rethink their strongly held views on capital punishment.

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