Firmly Entrenched

Some argue that the possibility of an innocent one being executed should remove capital punishment altogether. We grant that possibility even with all precautions. Doubtless errors have been made. But the abuse of a thing does not justify terminating what God ordained.

God gave the law for the death penalty but man has decided to be more "loving" than that. The result is that our judicial system, for the greater part, so favors criminals that punishment for crime is seldom what it should be. Even murders walk the streets in freedom because of "compassion."

Human error was possible when God gave the law but He still gave it. Capital punishment does not work today because it is not consistently and speedily applied. When man thinks he knows better than God how to deal with incorrigible villains society suffers. And our society is suffering. God's will is firmly entrenched in truth but who cares about that?