You dont revoke their ability to repent and be saved as a matter of fact most of those murderers on death row do exactly that. Even God has had people executed. How many times did God send in an army to destroy every living thing in the city including the children. Keeping these people is not the answer they are absolutely vile. If we had the proper death penalty which is ok according to the bible then there would be so many less of these murderers amoung us killing the innocent.

@ u/CherokeePede

I hate to break it to you but murders were put to death under Mosaic law, the one God instructed Moses to deliver to the Israelites, Ex 19:12 is the place to where I reference. There is logic in the law for putting a murderer down. It keeps others from becoming murderers based on vengeance. What occurs are two things, there is justice for the one slayed, and the issue is put to rest which can allow people to heal. The same reason if an animal such as bull gored your loved one to death, it was put down, not out of vengeance but to allow the family to heal and not walk past the animal every day and be reminded of their loss, and it was a sense of justice that the owner paid a price.

All life is precious, but when the law comes down from The Almighty, you follow it, to presume to be more wise or Holy, or lenient than God is, starts one down a path that is not conducive to going astray. Although the law was given over 3000 years ago, doesn't make it any less relevant, especially considering the source.

There are very, very, VERY few on death row who are innocent and the amount of innocent people in prison is about 1 our 2 percent.

The death penalty isnt about justice and it damn sure isnt about retribution. It is about protection. If all of Gods life is precious, you have a decision to make. Kill this individual or let them kill or harm lots of other individuals. If you can prevent it, and do not, you ill but committed the crime yourself. Their murder and rape victims could have been saved, had you stopped him, but you chose to let them be murdered instead. If in the world where a life is a 1:1 value, is not the innocent the one you should save? But we arent talking about 1:1. By forgoing the death penalty we are saying this persons life is worth all 12 or 40 of their victims. 40:1, if all life is equally precious, seems like a on brainer.

Multiple Murder is the only crime punished by the death penalty in the modern world. How is this even a discussion?

I essentially agree with you. The justice system is run by humans, and so the justice system is fallible. People who were on death row get their convictions overturned sometimes. Police don't always do their job right, or may get lazy and take the wrong person to court. The saying goes that it's better to release a criminal than convict a person who is innocent. We shouldn't give the state the ability to easily arrest and continue to grow our prison population, the largest on earth per Capita.

I also believe that all life is divine and precious, even those who do evil There have been times people have been put to death with capital punishment then cleared of the crime after death. The state did all the things required to be confident in their decision to kill a citizen, yet they still get it wrong sometimes.

I don't think it's worth it to go through all the legal things in order to execute someone. Which is good, we should give someone as much of a case as possible and to have absolutely no doubt if the state is putting people to death. But the cost of putting a prisoner to death is very often more expensive than it would be to just house them in prison the rest of their natural life. The state shouldn't have the ability to kill its own citizens, even if they were convicted of a heinous crime.