Bedau's Argument Against Capital Punishment

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Genesis 9:6 - Whoso sheddeth man 's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
In this scripture I feel like it basically states that if you kill a man by human hands then the man that kill, should also be killed by human hands. God created us in his image, so if we kill a human it’s like taking apart of God because we were all created in his image. It is morally wrong, because God created man and if someone kills we are taking that away from God. “A man who sheds another man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed” this reminds me of retaliation because it’s saying if you shed blood your will be shed too, or if you kill you shall be killed by human hands too.
Leviticus 24:17 - And he that killeth any man shall
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Bedau is a known adversary of capital punishment. Bedau say that the traditional defenders that support capital punishment have been people of religious and secular views. He goes on to say that each person by nature is aside from state laws and the fact that each person being born a human being, that everyone has the right to live. This is the doctrine of natural rights. I agree, just like babies who are aborted. They have the right to live, this is why abortion should not be legal. The forfeiting right to life is basically saying that anyone who has violated then life, liberty or property of another does not have their right of life, liberty, or property. The difficulties with this statement is that punishment under law is necessary for social defense. The dignity of a person, Kant states that if a person committed murder he must die. This cases means that there is no possible way of the satisfaction that will satisfy the requirements of the legal justice. The difficulties of Kant’s theory is that it assumes that retribution requires capital punishment for murder. Also Kant makes it to where there is no possible way for a role of social defense in the justification of

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