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capital punishment

An argument for beheading or against lethal injection

June 1, 2019 by Randal

This article is based on my 2013 article on state-beheading. Read the background here. Beheading is intolerably cruel. Beheading is less cruel than lethal injection. Therefore, lethal injection is intolerably cruel. If a mode of capital punishment is intolerably cruel then it ought to be illegal. Therefore, lethal injection ought to be illegal.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: capital punishment, ethics

Is it time to reestablish state-based beheading?

November 5, 2013 by Randal

A few days ago John Kruzel published a really fine article at Slate calling for the return of the guillotine. Kruzel points out the many problems with lethal injection as a form of capital punishment, and he points out that by contrast, the guillotine is (believe it or not) more humane and less messy. He […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: capital punishment, ethics, Slate

Jesus, execution and divorce

January 12, 2013 by Randal

In “Does Jesus commend the killing of children in Mark 7:10?” I argued that this verse (and the surrounding passage, Mark 7:9-13) does not provide warrant to think Jesus would commend (let alone participate in) the stoning of a child, even if the conditions for such a stoning as outlined in the Torah were met. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, capital punishment, ethics, hermeneutics, Jesus, Old Testament, torah

Why it is wrong to execute minors

December 18, 2012 by Randal

In the this and a following post I’m going to provide answers to some of the questions/comments in “Would Jesus stone a misbehaving child?” I will start here with a response to MaxVel. Let’s begin by quoting MaxVel’s comments in full: I think your attempted parallel here doesn’t work well because the original is in […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, capital punishment, ethics, morality, torah

Filicide in “biblical” perspective. But which biblical perspective?

December 16, 2012 by Randal

Now I’m slowly getting caught up on some of last week’s comments. In this article I address a comment in response to my essay “Should lazy teenagers be stoned?” I will then address the comments in “Would Jesus stone a misbehaving child?” Finally, I will address comments on morality and naturalism in “Can objective moral […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, capital punishment, corporeal punishment, ethics, law, torah, violence

The unconscionable act of executing Troy Davis

September 22, 2011 by Randal

The Supreme Court rejected the final appeal for clemency on behalf of Troy Davis. This despite the surprisingly weak eye witness testimony (much of which has since been retracted) which initially convicted him. This past year the United States criminal justice system executed 46 people, almost twice the number that was executed in Saudi Arabia. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: capital punishment, death penalty, Georgia, Troy Davis

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