Capital Punishment

1. Genesis 9:6 

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

2. Exodus 21:12 

“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.

3. Leviticus 24:17-22 

“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death. Whoever takes an animal’s life shall make it good, life for life. If anyone injures his neighbour, as he has done it shall be done to him, fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him. Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, and whoever kills a person shall be put to death. …

4. Acts 25:11 

If then I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

5. Genesis 9:5-6 

And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

6. Numbers 35:30-31 

“If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death.

7. Exodus 20:13 

“You shall not murder.

8. Exodus 21:16 

“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.

9. Leviticus 20:10 

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbour, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

10. Leviticus 20:13 

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

11. Ecclesiastes 8:11 

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.

12. Exodus 21:15 

“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

13. Numbers 35:30 

“If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

14. Romans 12:19 

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

15. Exodus 21:17 

“Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

16. Matthew 6:14-15 

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

17. Ezekiel 33:11 

Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

18. Deuteronomy 22:22 

“If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

19. Romans 13:4 

For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.

20. Exodus 35:2 

Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

21. Exodus 22:19 

“Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.

22. John 8:7 

And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”

23. Deuteronomy 21:18-21 

“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

24. Exodus 22:18 

“You shall not permit a sorceress to live.

25. Leviticus 20:27 

“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.”

26. Matthew 26:52 

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

27. Numbers 35:33 

You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

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