Capital Punishment: For
"execution prevents eighteen murders per year."(Hirsch, 122)
Opponents argue that capital punishment is immoral. But if you follow
the Old Testament, it is moral. In one passage from Genesis, “Whoever sheds the
blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed.” Another from Exodus, “Eye for an
eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for
wound, stripe for stripe” (Samaha, 440). It was not very moral of the prisoner
to commit a murder in the first place. Why should it be immoral to execute a
prisoner, but moral to kill an innocent pe ....
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