Capital Punishment
- Created by: Ciaran
- Created on: 19-04-15 17:08
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- Capital Punishment
- For Death penalty
- Deterrence: stops people from committing crimes
- Retribution: the ultimate payback
- Protection: get rid of an evil person and cant commit anymore evil acts
- In the Bible: God allows the death penalty
- Sves money: not having to look after a prisoner
- Against Death Penalty
- In USA, more murders take place where there is the DP
- It is revenge, not justice
- lethal Injection cause Dr's to go against there morals. Hippocratic Oath
- Life in prison is better payback, Revenge
- makes convicted terrorists into martyrs
- Everyone has the right to life even criminals
- God created life, he decides how we die
- goes against do not murder
- death penalty cost $23 million
- Bible supporting DP
- "Punishment shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth" Exodus
- "Whoever murders shall be killed by someone else" Genesis
- “You have authority over me only because it was given to you by God.” – John
- "Life is sacred"
- Christian Teaching Against DP
- “You have heard that it was said ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’. But I say, ‘Do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, let him slap your left cheek too.” Jesus
- “Let the person who has not sinned cast the first stone”. John
- You should forgive your brother or sister who sins against you “seventy seven times”
- For Death penalty
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