Different attitudes to capital punishment among Christians

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Christianity teaches that human life is sacred and that only God has the right to take life. If abortion and euthanasia are wrong, the death penalty must be wrong.

Question 2

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Jesus banned retribution when he said that an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is wrong. (Old Testament) for Christians the law of the New Testament overtook the law of the Old Testament.

Question 3

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Christianity is based on the fact that Jesus came to reform sinners. It is impossible to reform a criminal who has been executed.

Question 4

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Answer 4

Most of the Christian churches have condemned capital punishment, even those which have not such as the Catholic church have groups within them which have condemned it such as the Catholic Bishops Conference in the USA.