Death Penalty Offenses According to Scripture

Moral Capital Punishment

Death Penalties According to Sacred Scripture

Offenses Committed in the First Degree
Varying Penalties for False Testimony

Under Natural Law the following actions deserve the death penalty.
The order is in accord with the gravity of the offense
as associated with the Ten Commandments:

Sodomy – Pedophilia – Bestiality
Murder (the intentional killing of innocent human life) : includes abortion, experimentation on zygotes, in vitro fertilization, tobacco growers,
cigarette manufacturers and distributors, protectors of murderers including guards, police, prosecuting attorneys, judges, and officials who fail to issue just pardons
Satanists including Illuminati, B'nai B'rith, Skull & Bones, Bohemian Club, Freemasons, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Trilateral Commission, Wicca, etc.
- Ouija board, magic eight ball, tarot cards, fortune teller, omen, seance, and other devices and activities that open minds to satanic possession.
Kidnapping – Rape – Incest – Sadistic torture
Drug producers (growers and manufacturers) and major dealers (for monetary or other forms of profit) of mind altering addictive drugs
Adultery – Both male and female (includes bigamy and polygamy)
Pornography producers, financiers, directors, editors, distributors, protectors (guards, police, judges, etc.) camera persons, and willing participants.
Harlotry – Includes pimps and madams (female heads of houses of prostitution)
False Testimony, planted or withheld evidence when the death penalty is involved
Participants in election fraud including members of organization who rig elections for personal profit. This includes party bosses who belong to groups listed above and also members of other organizations promoting candidates for selfish interests

Mt. 5:21 "You have heard that it was said to your ancestors, 'You shall not kill; and whoever kills (murders) will be liable to judgment.' 22 But I say to you, whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment, and whoever says to his brother, 'Raqa,' will be answerable to the Sanhedrin, and whoever says, 'You fool,' will be liable to fiery Gehenna.

JN. 18:31 At this, Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." The Jews answered him, "We do not have the right to execute anyone (under Roman rule only the Roman authority had the right to execute)," 32 in order that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled that he said indicating the kind of death he would die.

Jn. 19:10 So Pilate said to him, "Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you and I have power to crucify you?" 11 Jesus answered (him), "You would have no power over me if it had not been given to you from above. For this reason the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin."

Acts 25:11 If I have committed a crime or done anything deserving death, I (Paul) do not seek to escape the death penalty; but if there is no substance to the charges they are bringing against me, then no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar."

Acts 28:18 After trying my case the Romans wanted to release me, because they found nothing against me deserving the death penalty.

1 Cor. 4:3 It does not concern me in the least that I be judged by you or any human tribunal; I do not even pass judgment on myself; 4 I am not conscious of anything against me, but I do not thereby stand acquitted; the one who judges me is the Lord.

James 4:17 So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin.

The Primary or Initial Commands of God:

"Be fertile and multiply." (God who is without limits set no limits.) [Gn. 1:28; 9:1,7]
Fill, take charge of, and be responsible for the environment given to us, and be responsible for all creatures therein. [Gn. 1:28]
Following the example of God, set aside a weekly day of rest from work. [Gn. 2:2]
Be obedient to God; doing God's will is (spiritual) life. [Gn. 2:17]
Only one man and one woman form one body. The two shall strive for harmonious unity. Neither they nor anyone else is to be the cause of their separation. [Gn. 2:24-25]
Dress modestly [Gn. 3:7 (fig leaves) versus Gn. 3:21 (garments of substance)]
Do not eat creatures while they are still alive. [Gn. 9:3-4]
Do not murder. – "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed." [Gn. 9:6 (after the great flood) ]
(Murderers –intentional killers of the innocent– are to be put to death. Just prior to the time this commandment was given, God had killed –caused the death of– all but eight of the earth's inhabitants. All of those who had been associated with grave evils. God sets only good example.)

Lv. 19:15 "You shall not act dishonestly in rendering judgment. Show neither partiality to the weak nor deference to the mighty, but judge your fellow men justly. ¹⁶ You shall not go about spreading slander among your kinsmen; nor shall you stand by idly when your neighbor's life is at stake. I am the LORD.

Heb. 4:12 Indeed, the word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.
Ex. 23:7 You shall keep away from anything dishonest. The innocent and the just you shall not put to death, nor shall you acquit the guilty.

Death Penalty Offenses (Capital Punishments) as found in Sacred Scripture.
Note: Cain's murder of Abel did not incur the death penalty. Even though there was not specific law against murder he was never-the- less punished because of his offense against natural law. He was banished from the land, forced to become a wanderer. Mankind kept committing offenses against natural law and finally God destroyed everyone but Noah and his family.
Following the flood the first command to execute murderers was declared. Subsequently the death penalty was proscribed for other serious offenses. Since there is a progression of offenses calling for the death penalty, it is clear that God foresaw that other offenses may also be added by legitimate moral authorities.

Gn. 9:6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed." In context with the whole of Scripture this means that one shall not intentionally take the life of an innocent person. Otherwise, to observe the command literally the one who followed the instruction would have ot be killed which ultimately would wipe out the whole human race.
By natural law before the written law of Moses: Gn. 3:24 About three months later, Judah was told that his daughter-in-law Tamar had played the harlot and was then with child from her harlotry. "Bring her out," cried Judah; "she shall be burned."
This penalty is not presently practiced in most countries.
The prohibition of execution by hands on strangulation is made explicit. [Ex. 19:12] "Set limits for the people all around the mountain, and tell them: Take care not to go up the mountain, or even to touch its base. If anyone touches the mountain, he must be put to death. ¹³ No hand shall touch him; he must be stoned to death or killed with arrows. Such a one, man or beast, must not be allowed to live. Only when the ram's horn resounds may they go up to the mountain."
Ex. 21:12-14 "Whoever strikes a man a mortal blow must be put to death. He, however, who did not hunt a man down, but caused his death by an act of God, may flee to a place which I will set apart for this purpose. But when a man kills another after maliciously scheming to do so, you must take him even from my altar and put him to death.
Ex. 21:15 Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death.
Ex. 21:16 "A kidnaper, whether he sells his victim or still has him when caught, shall be put to death.
Ex. 21:17 "Whoever curses his father or mother shall be put to death.
Responsibility of ownership: Ex. 21:28 "When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned; its flesh may not be eaten. The owner of the ox, however, shall go unpunished. ²⁹ But if an ox was previously in the habit of goring people and its owner, though warned, would not keep it in; should it then kill a man or a woman, not only must the ox be stoned, but its owner also must be put to death. ³⁰ If, however, a fine is imposed on him, he must pay in ransom for his life whatever amount is imposed on him. ³¹ This law applies if it is a boy or a girl that the ox gores. ³² But if it is a male or a female slave that it gores, he must pay the owner of the slave thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.
Ex. 22:19 "Anyone who lies with an animal shall be put to death.
Ex. 22:20 "Whoever sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD alone, shall be doomed.
Ex. 31:14 Therefore, you must keep the sabbath as something sacred. Whoever desecrates it shall be put to death. If anyone does work on that day, he must be rooted out of his people. ¹⁵ Six days there are for doing work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of complete rest, sacred to the LORD. Anyone who does work on the sabbath day shall be put to death.
Ex. 35:2 On six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be sacred to you as the sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on that day shall be put to death.
Lv. 20:2 "Tell the Israelites: Anyone, whether an Israelite or an alien residing in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall be put to death. Let his fellow citizens stone him.
Lv. 20:9 "Anyone who curses his father or mother shall be put to death; since he has cursed his father or mother, he has forfeited his life.
Lv. 20:10 If a man commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
Lv. 20:11 If a man disgraces his father by lying with his father's wife, both the man and his stepmother shall be put to death; they have forfeited their lives.
Lv. 20:12 If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; since they have committed an abhorrent deed, they have forfeited their lives.
Lv. 20:13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives.
Lv. 20:14 If a man marries a woman and her mother also, the man and the two women as well shall be burned to death for their shameful conduct, so that such shamefulness may not be found among you.
Lv. 20:15 If a man has carnal relations with an animal, the man shall be put to death, and the animal shall be slain.
Lv. 20:16 If a woman goes up to any animal to mate with it, the woman and the animal shall be slain; let them both be put to death; their lives are forfeit.
Lv. 20:27 "A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortune-teller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death."
Lv. 21:9 "A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death.
Lv. 24:11 This man quarreled publicly with another Israelite and cursed and blasphemed the LORD'S name. So the people brought him to Moses, ¹² who kept him in custody till a decision from the LORD should settle the case for them. ¹³ The LORD then said to Moses, ¹⁴ "Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and when all who heard him have laid their hands on his head, let the whole community stone him. ¹⁵ Tell the Israelites: Anyone who curses his God shall bear the penalty of his sin; ¹⁶ whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD shall be put to death. The whole community shall stone him; alien and native alike must be put to death for blaspheming the LORD'S name. ¹⁷ "Whoever takes the life of any human being shall be put to death; ... ²¹ Whoever slays an animal shall make restitution, but whoever slays a man shall be put to death. ²² You shall have but one rule, for alien and native alike. I, the LORD, am your God." ²³ When Moses told this to the Israelites, they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him; they carried out the command that the LORD had given Moses.
Lv. 27:29 All human beings that are doomed lose the right to be redeemed; they must be put to death.
- Judges 11:29 The spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and through Mizpah-Gilead as well, and from there he went on to the Ammonites. 30 Jephthah made a vow to the LORD. "If you deliver the Ammonites into my power," he said, 31 "whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites shall belong to the LORD. I shall offer him up as a holocaust." 32 Jephthah then went on to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD delivered them into his power, 33 so that he inflicted a severe defeat on them, from Aroer to the approach of Minnith (twenty cities in all) and as far as Abel-keramin. Thus were the Ammonites brought into subjection by the Israelites. 34 When Jephthah returned to his house in Mizpah, it was his daughter who came forth, playing the tambourines and dancing. She was an only child: he had neither son nor daughter besides her. 35 When he saw her, he rent his garments and said, "Alas, daughter, you have struck me down and brought calamity upon me. For I have made a vow to the LORD and I cannot retract." 36 "Father," she replied, "you have made a vow to the LORD. Do with me as you have vowed, because the LORD has wrought vengeance for you on your enemies the Ammonites." 37 [29] Then she said to her father, "Let me have this favor. Spare me for two months, that I may go off down the mountains to mourn my virginity with my companions." 38 "Go," he replied, and sent her away for two months. So she departed with her companions and mourned her virginity on the mountains. 39 At the end of the two months she returned to her father, who did to her as he had vowed. She had not been intimate with man. It then became a custom in Israel 40 for Israelite women to go yearly to mourn the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days of the year.
Nm. 1:51 When the Dwelling is to move on, the Levites shall take it down; when the Dwelling is to be pitched, it is the Levites who shall set it up. Any layman who comes near it shall be put to death.
Nm. 3:10 But only Aaron and his descendants shall you appoint to have charge of the priestly functions. Any layman who comes near shall be put to death."
Nm. 3:38 East of the Dwelling, that is, in front of the meeting tent, toward the sunrise, were camped Moses and Aaron and the latter's sons. They discharged the obligations of the sanctuary for the Israelites. Any layman who came near was to be put to death.
Nm. 15:32 While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was discovered gathering wood on the sabbath day. ³³ Those who caught him at it brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly. ³⁴ But they kept him in custody, for there was no clear decision as to what should be done with him. ³⁵ Then the LORD said to Moses, "This man shall be put to death; let the whole community stone him outside the camp." ³⁶ So the whole community led him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Nm. 18:7 But only you and your sons are to have charge of performing the priestly functions in whatever concerns the altar and the room within the veil. I give you the priesthood as a gift. Any layman who draws near shall be put to death."
Nm. 35:12 These cities shall serve you as places of asylum from the avenger of blood, so that a homicide shall not be put to death unless he is first tried before the community. 13 Six cities of asylum shall you assign: 14 three beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of Canaan. 15 These six cities of asylum shall serve not only the Israelites but all the resident or transient aliens among them, so that anyone who has killed another unintentionally may take refuge there.
Nm. 35:16 "If a man strikes another with an iron instrument and causes his death, he is a murderer and shall be put to death.
Nm. 35:17 If a man strikes another with a death-dealing stone in his hand and causes his death, he is a murderer and shall be put to death.
Nm. 35:18 If a man strikes another with a death-dealing club in his hand and causes his death, he is a murderer and shall be put to death.
Nm. 35:19 The avenger of blood may execute the murderer, putting him to death on sight.
Nm. 35:20 "If a man pushes another out of hatred, or after lying in wait for him throws something at him, and causes his death,
Nm. 35:21 or if he strikes another out of enmity and causes his death, he shall be put to death as a murderer. The avenger of blood may execute the murderer on sight.
Nm. 35:22 "However, if a man pushes another accidentally and not out of enmity, or if without lying in wait for him he throws some object at him, 23 or without seeing him throws a death-dealing stone which strikes him and causes his death, although he was not his enemy nor seeking to harm him: 24 then the community, deciding the case between the slayer and the avenger of blood in accordance with these norms, 25 shall free the homicide from the avenger of blood and shall remand him to the city of asylum where he took refuge; and he shall stay there until the death of the high priest who has been anointed with sacred oil.
Nm. 35:26 If the homicide of his own accord leaves the bounds of the city of asylum where he has taken refuge, 27 and the avenger of blood finds him beyond these bounds and kills him, the avenger incurs no bloodguilt; 28 the homicide was bound to stay in his city of asylum until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may the homicide return to his own district.
Nm. 35:29 "These shall be norms for you and all your descendants, wherever you live, for rendering judgment.
Nm. 35:30 "Whenever someone kills another, the evidence of witnesses is required for the execution of the murderer. The evidence of a single witness is not sufficient for putting a person to death.
Nm. 35:31 "You shall not accept indemnity in place of the life of a murderer who deserves the death penalty; he must be put to death. 32 Nor shall you accept indemnity to allow a refugee to leave his city of asylum and again dwell elsewhere in the land before the death of the high priest.
Nm. 35:33 You shall not desecrate the land where you live. Since bloodshed desecrates the land, the land can have no atonement for the blood shed on it except through the blood of him who shed it. 34 Do not defile the land in which you live and in the midst of which I dwell; for I am the LORD who dwells in the midst of the Israelites."
Dt. 12:29 "When the LORD, your God, removes the nations from your way as you advance to dispossess them, be on your guard! Otherwise, once they have been wiped out before you and you have replaced them and are settled in their land, ³⁰ you will be lured into following them. Do not inquire regarding their gods, 'How did these nations worship their gods? I, too, would do the same.' ³¹ You shall not thus worship the LORD, your God, because they offered to their gods every abomination that the LORD detests, even burning their sons and daughters to their gods.
³² [13:1] "Every command that I enjoin on you, you shall be careful to observe, neither adding to it nor subtracting from it.
Dt. 13:1 [2] "If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer who promises you a sign or wonder, 2 [3] urging you to follow other gods, whom you have not known, and to serve them: even though the sign or wonder he has foretold you comes to pass, 3 [4] pay no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer; for the LORD, your God, is testing you to learn whether you really love him with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 [5] The LORD, your God, shall you follow, and him shall you fear; his commandment shall you observe, and his voice shall you heed, serving him and holding fast to him alone. 5 [6] But that prophet or that dreamer shall be put to death, because, in order to lead you astray from the way which the LORD, your God, has directed you to take, he has preached apostasy from the LORD, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and ransomed you from that place of slavery. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
6 [7] "If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or your intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, 7 [8] gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: 8 [9] do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, 9 [10] but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. 10 [11] You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the LORD, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. 11 [12] And all Israel, hearing of it, shall fear and never again do such evil as this in your midst. 12 [13]
"If, in any of the cities which the LORD, your God, gives you to dwell in, you hear it said 13 [14] that certain scoundrels have sprung up among you and have led astray the inhabitants of their city to serve other gods whom you have not known, 14 [15] you must inquire carefully into the matter and investigate it thoroughly. If you find that it is true and an established fact that this abomination has been committed in your midst, 15 [16] you shall put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, dooming the city and all life that is in it, even its cattle, to the sword. 16 [17] Having heaped up all its spoils in the middle of its square, you shall burn the city with all its spoils as a whole burnt offering to the LORD, your God. Let it be a heap of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt. 17 [18] You shall not retain anything that is doomed, that the blazing wrath of the LORD may die down and he may show you mercy and in his mercy for you may multiply you as he promised your fathers on oath;
18 [19] because you have heeded the voice of the LORD, your God, keeping all his commandments which I enjoin on you today, doing what is right in his sight.
Dt. 17:2 "If there is found among you, in any one of the communities which the LORD, your God, gives you, a man or a woman who does evil in the sight of the LORD, your God, and transgresses his covenant, 3 by serving other gods, or by worshiping the sun or the moon or any of the host of the sky, against my command; 4 and if, on being informed of it, you find by careful investigation that it is true and an established fact that this abomination has been committed in Israel: 5 you shall bring the man (or woman) who has done the evil deed out to your city gates and stone him to death.
- Dt. 17:6 The testimony of two or three witnesses is required for putting a person to death; no one shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.
Dt. 17:7 At the execution, the witnesses are to be the first to raise their hands against him; afterward all the people are to join in. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
Dt. 21:18 "If a man has a stubborn and unruly son who will not listen to his father or mother, and will not obey them even though they chastise him, 19 his father and mother shall have him apprehended and brought out to the elders at the gate of his home city, 20 where they shall say to those city elders, 'This son of ours is a stubborn and unruly fellow who will not listen to us; he is a glutton and a drunkard.' 21 Then all his fellow citizens shall stone him to death. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel, on hearing of it, shall fear.
- Dt. 21:22 [13] "If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and his corpse hung on a tree, 23 it shall not remain on the tree overnight. You shall bury it the same day; otherwise, since God's curse rests on him who hangs on a tree, you will defile the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you as an inheritance.
Dt. 24:7 "If any man is caught kidnaping a fellow Israelite in order to enslave him and sell him, the kidnaper shall be put to death. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
Dt. 24:16 "Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; only for his own guilt shall a man be put to death.
Joshua 7:20 Achan answered Joshua, "I have indeed sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I have done: 21 Among the spoils, I saw a beautiful Babylonian mantle, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight; in my greed I took them. They are now hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath." 22 The messengers whom Joshua sent hastened to the tent and found them hidden there, with the silver underneath. 23 They took them from the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites, and spread them out before the LORD. 24 Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, son of Zerah, with the silver, the mantle, and the bar of gold, and with his sons and daughters, his ox, his ass and his sheep, his tent, and all his possessions, and led them off to the Valley of Achor. 25 Joshua said, "The LORD bring upon you today the misery with which you have afflicted us!" And all Israel stoned him to death 26 and piled a great heap of stones over him, which remains to the present day. Then the anger of the LORD relented. That is why the place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.
Judges 19:22 While they were enjoying themselves, the men of the city, who were corrupt, surrounded the house and beat on the door. They said to the old man whose house it was, "Bring out your guest, that we may abuse him." 23 The owner of the house went out to them and said, "No, my brothers; do not be so wicked. Since this man is my guest, do not commit this crime. 24 Rather let me bring out my maiden daughter or his concubine. Ravish them, or do whatever you want with them; but against the man you must not commit this wanton crime." 25 When the men would not listen to his host, the husband seized his concubine and thrust her outside to them. They had relations with her and abused her all night until the following dawn, when they let her go. 26 Then at daybreak the woman came and collapsed at the entrance of the house in which her husband was a guest, where she lay until the morning. 27 When her husband rose that day and opened the door of the house to start out again on his journey, there lay the woman, his concubine, at the entrance of the house with her hands on the threshold. 28 He said to her, "Come, let us go"; but there was no answer. So the man placed her on an ass and started out again for home.
29 On reaching home, he took a knife to the body of his concubine, cut her into twelve pieces, and sent them throughout the territory of Israel. 30 Everyone who saw this said, "Nothing like this has been done or seen from the day the Israelites came up from the land of Egypt to this day. Take note of it, and state what you propose to do."
- Judges 20:1 So all the Israelites came out as one man: from Dan to Beer-sheba, and from the land of Gilead, the community was gathered to the LORD at Mizpah. 2 The leaders of all the people and all the tribesmen of Israel, four hundred thousand foot soldiers who were swordsmen, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God. 3 Meanwhile, the Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. The Israelites asked to be told how the crime had taken place, 4 and the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, testified: "My concubine and I went into Gibeah of Benjamin for the night. 5 But the citizens of Gibeah rose up against me by night and surrounded the house in which I was. Me they attempted to kill, and my concubine they abused so that she died. 6 So I took my concubine and cut her up and sent her through every part of the territory of Israel, because of the monstrous crime they had committed in Israel. 7 Now that you are all here, O Israelites, state what you propose to do." 8 All the people rose as one man to say, "None of us is to leave for his tent or return to his home. 9 Now as for Gibeah, this is what we will do: We will proceed against it by lot, 10 taking from all the tribes of Israel ten men for every hundred, a hundred for every thousand, a thousand for every ten thousand, and procuring supplies for the soldiers who will go to deal fully and suitably with Gibeah of Benjamin for the crime it committed in Israel."
  11 When, therefore, all the men of Israel without exception were leagued together against the city, 12 the tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin to say, "What is this evil which has occurred among you? 13 Now give up these corrupt men of Gibeah, that we may put them to death and thus purge the evil from Israel." But the Benjaminites refused to accede to the demand of their brothers, the Israelites. 14 Instead, the Benjaminites assembled from their other cities to Gibeah, to do battle with the Israelites. 15 The number of the Benjaminite swordsmen from the other cities on that occasion was twenty-six thousand, in addition to the inhabitants of Gibeah. 16 Included in this total were seven hundred picked men who were left-handed, every one of them able to sling a stone at a hair without missing. 17 Meanwhile the other Israelites who, without Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand swordsmen ready for battle, 18 moved on to Bethel and consulted God. When the Israelites asked who should go first in the attack on the Benjaminites, the LORD said, "Judah shall go first." 19 The next day the Israelites advanced on Gibeah with their forces.
  20 On the day the Israelites drew up in battle array at Gibeah for the combat with Benjamin, 21 the Benjaminites came out of the city and felled twenty-two thousand men of Israel. 22 23 Then the Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening. "Shall I again engage my brother Benjamin in battle?" they asked the LORD; and the LORD answered that they should. [22] But though the Israelite soldiers took courage and again drew up for combat in the same place as on the previous day, 24 when they met the Benjaminites for the second time, 25 once again the Benjaminites who came out of Gibeah against them felled eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them swordsmen. 26 So the entire Israelite army went up to Bethel, where they wept and remained fasting before the LORD until evening of that day, besides offering holocausts and peace offerings before the LORD. 27 When the Israelites consulted the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, 28 and Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was ministering to him in those days), and asked, "Shall I go out again to battle with Benjamin, my brother, or shall I desist?" the LORD said, "Attack! for tomorrow I will deliver him into your power." 29 So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah. 30 The Israelites went up against the Benjaminites for the third time and formed their line of battle at Gibeah as on other occasions.
  31 The Benjaminites went out to meet them, and in the beginning they killed off about thirty of the Israelite soldiers in the open field, just as on the other occasions. 32 Therefore the Benjaminites thought, "We are defeating them as before"; not realizing that disaster was about to overtake them. The Israelites, however, had planned the flight so as to draw them away from the city onto the highways. They were drawn away from the city onto the highways, of which the one led to Bethel, the other to Gibeon. 33 And then all the men of Israel rose from their places. They re-formed their ranks at Baal-tamar, and the Israelites in ambush rushed from their place west of Gibeah, 34 ten thousand picked men from all Israel, and advanced against the city itself. In a fierce battle, 35 the LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel; and on that day the Israelites killed twenty-five thousand one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them swordsmen.
  36 To the Benjaminites it had looked as though the enemy were defeated, for the men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, trusting in the ambush they had set at Gibeah. 37 But then the men in ambush made a sudden dash into Gibeah, overran it, and put the whole city to the sword. 38 Now, the other Israelites had agreed with the men in ambush on a smoke signal they were to send up from the city. 39 And though the men of Benjamin had begun by killing off some thirty of the men of Israel, under the impression that they were defeating them as surely as in the earlier fighting, the Israelites wheeled about to resist 40 as the smoke of the signal column began to rise up from the city. It was when Benjamin looked back and saw the whole city in flames against the sky 41 that the men of Israel wheeled about. Therefore the men of Benjamin were thrown into confusion, for they realized the disaster that had overtaken them. 42 They retreated before the men of Israel in the direction of the desert, with the fight being pressed against them. In their very midst, meanwhile, those who had been in the city were spreading destruction. 43 The men of Benjamin had been surrounded, and were now pursued to a point east of Gibeah, 44 while eighteen thousand of them fell, warriors to a man. 45 The rest turned and fled through the desert to the rock Rimmon. But on the highways the Israelites picked off five thousand men among them, and chasing them up to Gidom, killed another two thousand of them there. 46 Those of Benjamin who fell on that day were in all twenty-five thousand swordsmen, warriors to a man. 47 But six hundred others who turned and fled through the desert reached the rock Rimmon, where they remained for four months.
  48 The men of Israel withdrew through the territory of the Benjaminites, putting to the sword the inhabitants of the cities, the livestock, and all they chanced upon. Moreover they destroyed by fire all the cities they came upon.

Proverbs 19:5 The false witness will not go unpunished,
and he who utters lies will not escape.

6 Many curry favor with a noble;
all are friends of the man who has something to give.

7 All the poor man's brothers hate him;
how much more do his friends shun him!

8 He who gains intelligence is his own best friend;
he who keeps understanding will be successful.

9 The false witness will not go unpunished,
and he who utters lies will perish.

Acts 28:18 After trying my case the Romans wanted to release me, because they found nothing against me deserving the death penalty.

James 4:17 So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin.

Legal only Vatican officials headed by John Paul II and Benedict XVI oppose God's command concerning the just use of the death penalty:

VATICAN CITY, JAN. 1, 2007 (Zenit.org).- In the wake of the execution of former Iraqi dictator Sadaam Hussein, the Vatican reaffirmed its condemnation of the death penalty.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, made that comment Saturday, the day Hussein was executed by hanging at a former military intelligence headquarters in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah.
"A capital execution is always tragic news," he said, "reasons for sadness, even if it is about a person who has been guilty of grave crimes."
Father Lombardi added: "To kill the guilty one is not the way to rebuild justice and to reconcile society. The risk also exists that, on the contrary, the spirit of vengeance will be fueled and new violence be sown.
"In this dark time of the life of the Iraqi people one cannot but hope that all those responsible will make every effort so that in a dramatic situation channels of reconciliation and peace will finally be opened."
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Vatican officials decry Saddam execution

Jan. 2, 2007 (CWNews.com) - The head of the Vatican press office has decried the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and condemning the use of the death penalty in general.
Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, the director of the Vatican press office, told a Vatican Radio audience that the hanging of Saddam Hussein was “tragic and an occasion for sorrow.” He expressed concern that the execution might “fuel the spirit of revenge” in Iraq.
Father Lombardi also said that the Church teaches the use of the death penalty is wrong “even when the person put to death is one guilty of grave crimes.” He added: "The position of the Catholic Church against the death penalty has often been reiterated."
Cardinal Renato Martino (bio - news), the outspoken president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, had earlier spoken out against the Iraqi court’s ruling that Saddam Hussein should be put to death. Acknowledging the misdeeds of the deposed Iraqi leader, the cardinal nonetheless said, “I hope a crime will not be avenged with another crime.”
“The death penalty isn’t a natural death,” Cardinal Martino explained. He said that it therefore violates Catholic teaching, which condemns deliberate killing.
The Italian prelate went on to tell the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that the entire war in Iraq has been wrong. He cited the prediction of the late Pope John Paul II (bio - news), who had argued against the US-led campaign in Iraq, saying that it would be “an adventure from which there is no return.”

The death penalty was just. It gave the hundred of thousands of Kurds that were annihilated by Saddam final rest. The person who dies has an opportunity to make amends with God before he meets Him. The death is painless and the family doesn't have any hospital bills/or funeral expenses to pay afterwards.Most people don't get it that good when they die. We couldn't take a chance if saddam have escaped from jail, he could have started a new reign of terror with his hero worshippers.

Posted by: Comment - Today 8:57 AM ET USA
This is a fine example of how Conciliarists invent non-Catholic doctrine and expect people to buy it out of obedience.

Here is the Catholic teaching on killing:
“Q. Are there cases in which it is lawful to kill?
A. It is lawful to kill when fighting in a just war; when carrying out by order of the Supreme Authority a sentence of death in punishment of a crime; and, finally, in cases of necessary and lawful defense of one's own life against an unjust aggressor.” (Catechism of St. Pius X).

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