Capital Punishment Is Antithetical to the Gospel (Part 2, Jesus’ Example) A Christian who calls for capital punishment is like someone picking up a stone and declaring, “I’m without sin; let me do it.”
Capital Punishment Is Antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus You cannot simultaneously believe that God is the God of redemption, forgiveness, and transformation and believe that the best response to certain kinds of crime is execution. I mean, I guess you can—people clearly do. In the U.S., executions happen most often where Christians are most concentrated (85%