According to the article "The Death Penalty Debate" by Ernest Van den Haag, the author confirms that the death penalty is not a new law, and humans do not put this law by themselves. But, most of traditional laws and scriptures support the idea of the death penalty. Also, the history does not mention that people who have the authority to put the death penalty in their regulations. Now, the society should apply the law because it is difficult to allocate this law for the God only. "I see no evidence for society somehow not having "the right” to execute murderers. It has always done so. Traditional laws and Scriptures have always supported the death penalty. I know of no reasoning, even in a religious (theocratic) state, that denies the right
