>>>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".
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>>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).
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>You won't get an arguement from me one or another. A monster like Saddam can either rot in jail or hang far as I'm concerned. But I'm agree that monsters, like Saddam, deserves what they get.

Or preferably hang rotting in a jail - R. Mugabe comes to mind there.

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>>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)
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>I don't know if "allow" is the right word.
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>I don't believe in stoning someone for petty crimes... I think they should be boiled in oil or tarred & feathered. :)

How about a petty crime like smoking a spliff? Do you think you aught to get stoned for doing that?

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>>I'd've thought you were arguing against ANY form of killing.
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>Nope. I would kill for self defense or to protect others from being murdered if I had the chance.