Opponents of capital punishment will often rail it's barbaric for the
state to exact vengeance. But would they be more compassionate than even
God?
God has ordered the state to be an avenger in his stead. When a person
purposefully seeks to end another person's life or commits a crime equal
thereto, the state not only has the right but the duty to take the lives of
those who willfully violate the sacredness of life. For the state to act
administratively in honor of God's law is far different than an act of personal
vengeance, which our Lord prohibits.
Even though a strong argument might be made for capital punishment as a
deterrent, such reasoning isn't its main purpose. Its primary function is the
principle of simple justice.
Dr. William H. Baker in "Worthy of Death" has eloquently written:
"Retribution is properly a satisfactor or according to the ancient figure of
justice and her scales, a restoration of a disturbed equilibrium. As such it is
a proper, legitimate and moral concept."
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