The sixth commandment of the Bible states that “thou shalt not kill.”: Certainly, this makes capital punishment wrong. Capital punishment was not made to promote killing but it stands as a god-ordained action for human government. According to the author of The Biblical Truth about America's Death Penalty, Dale Recinella, everyone is deserving of death. The criminal laws that were given to man by God were made to work with a community for both victims and offenders, leading us to ask if certain crimes are worthy of death. The written law and the Mosaic law leaves no stone unturned about death as a political power which is still influential on modern day crimes and governments. The Old Testament does not forbid the death penalty but uses capital
