>>>>Justice too often is about revenge rather than anything else..
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>>>>The death penalty is babaric regardless of the form. In that sense the US is totally backward to any other western country.
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>>>>"Thy shall not kill"
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>>>It's actually "Thy shall not murder".
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>>If you're talking of the 10 commandments it's actually "Thou shalt not kill". "Thy" means "your" as in "belonging to you, singular".
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>Yes. I stand corrected.
>But the the word "kill" comes from a Hebrew word "ratsach", which means "... killing without just cause...". So more accurately the modern day scriptures are translated to say "Thou shalt not murder".

Fair enough but either you're saying that execution is killing WITH just cause (which negates your argument vs capital punishment), or without (which makes it murder anyway).

Or do the scriptures allow capital punishment by these words? (I know they were well into stoning people to death, for instance, for petty "crimes" like adultery or pre-marital sex)

I'd've thought you were arguing against ANY form of killing.