Against Capital Punishment: A Response

2020-08-04T00:02:25-05:00

In a recent post, Ms. Hunt declared unequivocally that she’s “opposed to capital punishment.”  According to Ms. Hunt, the fifth commandment and “the parable of the wheat and seeds” evidence the intrinsically sinful nature of capital punishment.  Ms. Hunt’s “deeper” reason for disliking capital punishment relies on the assumption that capital punishment is sinful per se: [...]