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Commentaries on Capital Punishment, Faith, & Victims

By Steve Hall

At the Washington Post's On Faith, Reverend Matt Randles posts, "One Christian's view on the death penalty."  He's the pastor of Headwaters Covenant Church in Helena, Mont. Randles' essay is drawn from remarks delivered at the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty annual meeting, earlier this year. In the Easter season, we remember Jesus' crucifixion and death for the sin of the world. Christians declare that Jesus' death brings life, so how can we then demand the death of certain criminals? The Old Testament says, "You are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth." But developing a biblical understanding of capital punishment isn't as simple as appropriating select verses from the Old Testament...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).