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6.2 Pay life for life
Retributive justice, including the death penalty, is required to restore righteousness and peace to the community and to quell inclinations to take revenge.
Leviticus 24.17
“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.”
Leviticus 24.21b
“…and whoever kills a person shall be put to death.”
Deuteronomy 19.11-13
“‘But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities, then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die. Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you.’”
This series of In the Gates provides the Scriptural support for the Ten Commandments and their supporting statutes, rules, and precepts. A complete version of this series is available as The Law of God. Go to www.MyParuchia.com and click on our Book Store.