Death Penalties and the Divine: This two-part essay offers students some critique on the exegesis of the usual biblical texts and a biblical-but-not-necessary perspective on using the death penalty in today’s society. “While I don’t think there are strong practical reasons to keep the penalty around these days—except, perhaps, for exceptional cases—the Biblical evidence in favor of abolition is thin. [We can also] to try to understand some of the puzzling, even troubling, aspects of the death penalty in the Scriptures.”
Part 1: Death Penalties and the Divine
Part 2: God’s Image, Man’s Crimes
