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Each of the Capital Punishment in Context case narratives highlights several broader issues. By clicking on a topic heading, you will be able to investigate those issues. These links ... provide access to materials prepared by leading researchers and scholars.
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There is a cry of ..."[F]oul", from the camp of these Love everybody, do-gooder, bleeding- heart liberals, who think that Capital Punishment is not civilized. They are always worried about whether the murderer that is put to death, suffered undo harm. They want to know if the form of punishment was "safe and effective", so the criminal didn't have to suffer. These people give no thought as to how the victim suffered at the hands of these thugs.
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Some have said that Jesus set aside capital punishment in John 8 when He did not call for the woman caught in adultery to be stoned. But remember the context. The Pharisees were trying to trap Jesus between the Roman law and the Mosaic law. If He said that they should stone her, He would break the Roman law. If He refused to allow them to stone her, He would break the Mosaic law (Lev. 20:10; Deut. 22:22).
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A second objection to capital punishment pertains to the woman taken in adultery. “Did not Jesus exonerate her and leave her uncondemned?” Surely the story about the woman taken in adultery in John 8 has been misused and misapplied more than almost any other Scripture. Yet a careful study of this passage yields complete harmony with the principle of capital punishment. At least four extenuating circumstances necessitated Jesus leaving the woman uncondemned:
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Despite the movement toward abolition, many countries have retained capital punishment, and, in fact, some have extended its scope. More than 30 countries have made the importation and possession for sale of certain drugs a capital offense.
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Be that as it may, very little has been written regarding Buddhist views on capital punishment. The author intends to help remedy this deficiency. What follows, therefore, is a Buddhist perspective on the death penalty based upon Buddhist thought and history. This article should be seen as being just that. In other words, what is about to be presented is merely one possible perspective, albeit one that has considerable support in the corpus of Buddhist literature and the experience of Buddhism as a living religion existing in various cultures over the past two and a half millennia.
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