Not exact matches
Wide use of the
death penalty against blacks would continue through the 19th century and into the 20th, pushed by Southern whites who saw capital punishment
as necessary to restrain a dangerous black population.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (
Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children
as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (
Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (
Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (
Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (
Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (
Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought
as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families
against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're
against him) Matthew 15:4 (
Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence
against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
I just wonder why they are not fighting just
as hard
against other forms of «killing humans» like the
death penalty (no one can say no innocent people have died on
death row) the poor and sick and many elderly being allowed to starve and freeze because the religious right doesn't want to shoulder that burden through their taxes.
«In a world of violence,» he argues, «the
death penalty is understood
as a necessary firewall
against the spread of further deadly violence.»
But it seems
as though people use the Bible to speak
against abortion, but ignore what the Bible says
against the
death penalty.
At the end of the day I think there are a lot of reasons to be
against the
death penalty, but for a Christian who believes that Jesus died to spare us from
death and this idea of grace or
as Scripture says «mercy triumphs over judgement.»
The story takes place in the republic of Panem, where the United States has broken into 12 districts and,
as a
penalty for a failed uprising
against the totalitarian government decades earlier, each district must offer one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in The Hunger Games, where the «tributes» must participate in a nationally televised battle to the
death.
So
as an argument
against the
death penalty, the movie does is not convincing.
- Kirkus «This devastating read stands less
as a polemic
against the
death penalty than
as a heartbreaking brief for the preciousness of life.»
Taking a page from the «
death panel» lies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and energy - funded groups like Americans for Prosperity waged an all - out campaign
against the climate bill, indelibly branding common - sense
penalties on climate polluters
as «taxes.»
«We will be ignored if we are perceived in many of the councils that matter
as against the
death penalty,» he said.
And having done that, the heavy workload that they themselves helped to create is now marshalled
as a further argument
against the
death penalty.
Many of the judgments
against Turkey have been leading judgments in their field, contributing valuable principles to the corpus of international human rights law in areas
as diverse
as torture, killings, disappearances on the one hand and freedom of expression, the banning of political parties, the destruction of villages, expropriation of property, fair trial and the
death penalty on the other.
The Trump administration said it will seek stiffer
penalties against drug dealers — including the
death penalty where appropriate under current law — and it wants the number of prescriptions for powerful painkillers to be cut by one - third nationwide
as part of a broad effort to combat the opioid crisis.