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Capital Punishment Capital punishment is justified for society’s hardest criminals. The way in which this is still argued you would think this was a new idea. Yet there was no challenging capital punishment in the beginning. You can not debate God. In the Old Testament, God himself used capital punishment either directly or indirectly. Take the flood of Noah, where God destroyed all life on Earth, except for the survivors of the Ark. He destroyed two cities, Soddon and Gornorrah because of the sins of the people residing there. In the time of Moses, he took the lives of Egyptian’s firsts born sons and destroyed the Egyptian army in the Red Sea. Capital punishment even precedes the Old Testament law code. In Genesis, Capital punishment is based on the belief in the sanctity of life. It says, “Whoever sheds man’s blood by man his blood shall be shed, for in the image of God, He made man. Some Christians say the Sermon on the Mount Jesus was arguing against capital punishment. What he was actually saying was not to replace the power and responsibility of the government in taking vengeance our selves. Jesus does not deny the authority of government when he tells people to love their enemies and turn the