Justifiable Punishment - Support of the Death Penalty: An Annotated Bibliography
Guengerich, Galen. “The Death Penalty’s Underlying Problem.” Time.Com (2014): 1. Business Source Complete. Web. 12 Nov. 2012.
Guengerich is the senior minister of New York’s All Souls Unitarian Church, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of God Revised: How Religion Must Evolve in a Scientific Age. In this article, he takes a stance against the death penalty. His article does not make a clear argument supported by facts; instead, he supports his opinion by passing judgment on those who allow murder or remain ignorant of crime. Therefore, to refute his stance, I plan to redirect the focus to the guilty party, the murderer.
"The Village Green." …show more content…
In this article, three authors explain their opinion starting with David Gushee, the director of the Center for Theology and Public life at Mercer University. He presents scriptural evidence to supporting Christians being both pro-life and pro-death penalty, determining that the death penalty against murderers does prevent murders. Second, Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, concedes capital punishment is ethical if carried out by civil magistrates against evildoers. Third, Glen Stassen, professor of Christian ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary and coauthor with David Gushee of Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context, opposes the death penalty, considering capital punishment revenge. Consequently, his argument is too narrowly focused, and I will suggest considering the death penalty justice instead of revenge in order to refute his …show more content…
Romans 13: 1-7 provides biblical support for a magistrate to use the death penalty to punish evil criminals. This scripture supports my argument that capital punishment is biblically ethical; as well as, Leviticus 24: 17 which condones a person being executed for murdering another person. Also, Numbers 35: 29-31 continues support for capital punishment by saying if anyone kills a person, he shall be put to death. On the contrary, Ezekiel 33: 14-19 is used by many against capital punishment as biblical evidence that we should forgive murderers. I plan to refute this argument because forgiveness is not a substitution for
Guengerich, Galen. “The Death Penalty’s Underlying Problem.” Time.Com (2014): 1. Business Source Complete. Web. 12 Nov. 2012.
Guengerich is the senior minister of New York’s All Souls Unitarian Church, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of God Revised: How Religion Must Evolve in a Scientific Age. In this article, he takes a stance against the death penalty. His article does not make a clear argument supported by facts; instead, he supports his opinion by passing judgment on those who allow murder or remain ignorant of crime. Therefore, to refute his stance, I plan to redirect the focus to the guilty party, the murderer.
"The Village Green." …show more content…
In this article, three authors explain their opinion starting with David Gushee, the director of the Center for Theology and Public life at Mercer University. He presents scriptural evidence to supporting Christians being both pro-life and pro-death penalty, determining that the death penalty against murderers does prevent murders. Second, Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, concedes capital punishment is ethical if carried out by civil magistrates against evildoers. Third, Glen Stassen, professor of Christian ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary and coauthor with David Gushee of Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context, opposes the death penalty, considering capital punishment revenge. Consequently, his argument is too narrowly focused, and I will suggest considering the death penalty justice instead of revenge in order to refute his …show more content…
Romans 13: 1-7 provides biblical support for a magistrate to use the death penalty to punish evil criminals. This scripture supports my argument that capital punishment is biblically ethical; as well as, Leviticus 24: 17 which condones a person being executed for murdering another person. Also, Numbers 35: 29-31 continues support for capital punishment by saying if anyone kills a person, he shall be put to death. On the contrary, Ezekiel 33: 14-19 is used by many against capital punishment as biblical evidence that we should forgive murderers. I plan to refute this argument because forgiveness is not a substitution for