Punishment: Death Penalty for Murder

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Genesis 9:5,6
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
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Numbers 35:16-21,30-33
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
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Deuteronomy 17:6
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
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Library

The Wages of Sin
... he values human life, and unless he attaches a penalty commensurate in ... of opinion
as to which is most effective, solitary punishment for life, or death. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/finney/sermons on gospel themes/iii the wages of sin.htm

Whether it is Just that the Punishments of Sins Last Longer than ...
... or is not a penalty of many years' confinement imposed on ... Then as to the award of
death for any great crime, do the laws reckon the punishment to consist ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 11 whether it is just.htm

Sixth Commandment
... as one gets on in years, he sees many a murder that is ... It does not forbid capital
punishment. God Himself set the death penalty upon violations of each of the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/moody/weighed and wanting/sixth commandment.htm

Whether the Judicial Precepts were Suitably Framed as to the ...
... The Old Law inflicted the death penalty for the ... committed against God, and for murder,
for stealing a ... of other things it inflicted punishment by indemnification ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the judicial precepts were 3.htm

Christ Before Pilate.
... But they could not inflict the death penalty. ... the right to decide on all cases of
capital punishment. ... of Christ, and ready to secure his judicial murder by the ...
/.../johnson/the new testament commentary vol iii john/christ before pilate.htm

Letter cclx. To Optimus the Bishop.
... it is ordained that Cain pay the penalty of his ... God, Who was angry with him for the
murder, and so ... For to men suffering punishment, death is a gain, because it ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter cclx to optimus the.htm

Thoughts on the Last Battle
... every one of us become subject to the penalty of death ... Where death leaves me, judgment
finds me. ... heretics in these days who talk of short punishment, and preach ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/thoughts on the last battle.htm

Knox in the War of the Congregation: the Regent Attacked: Her ...
... and Princes." Against these charges (murder, rebellion, profligacy ... The death penalty
was threatened often, by Scots ... the graduated scale of punishment shows that ...
/.../lang/john knox and the reformation/chapter xii knox in the.htm

Chapter ix.
... say that murder is punished by a more severe penalty under the ... disgrace of the gehenna
followed as an intensification of death; but the punishment is one ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/our lords sermon on the mount/chapter ix.htm

Whether Man is Freed by Baptism from all Debt of Punishment Due to ...
... man is incorporated in the Passion and death of Christ ... that they should be edified
at his punishment, since they ... But the sovereign may remit the penalty to such ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether man is freed by.htm