death penalty

Capital Punishment Capital punishment is an extremely controversial issue in today’s society. Many Americans support it and, in turn, many also appose it tremendously. Those who appose capital punishment, in general, think that the death penalty is an inhuman and unfair punishment. Their argument is supported by the fact that many criminals claim innocence up until the day of their executions. Those who support capital punishment believe that the people who are on death …

…big-hearted enough to do so and overlook our great mass of sins but because his own son, Jesus, was willing to give his life for ours.” Our lives were overtaken by sin and we were dead in God’s eyes. However, Jesus gave his life as retribution of our own which in a form was like the death penalty because our old lives were done away with, taken, by the taking of Jesus Christs life.