Religiously Incorrect ? (pro-death penal

Religiously Incorrect ? (pro-death penal

  For years Christian opponents of the death penalty have used the Holy Bible, the source of all morality, to fight capital punishment. The 5th commandment, "Thou shall not kill", is usually thrown out, but the true translation from the original Hebrew, according to capital punishment expert Wesley Lowe, is: "Thou sahll not MURDER."
  Just as people argue that the Bible is against capital punishment, it can also prove to be for it. Often the quote "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone," from the story when Jesus saved a prostitute from being stoned, is used to deter capital punishment. But it is also documented that Christ Himself regarded capital punishment as a just penalty for murder when he said to one of his disciples after he tried to kill a soldier who had come to arrest Jesus: "...all who take the sword will perish by the sword." (Matthew 26:52)
  Some argue that since we cannot create human life we should not take it. If you accept the premises for religion, then not only can we not create a human life, we cannot destroy it. We can only destroy the flesh that temporarily houses the immortal soul. What happens to the soul is God's business, no one else's.