Should Murder Be Punishable by Death? The enforcement of the death penalty has always been a controversial topic in America. The death penalty dates back to the fourteenth century. Although, in America the death penalty was not used until 1608 in Virginia. It was brought to the Americans by the European settlers when they came to the new world. Their influence of capital punishment was so strong that America was using the death penalty more than …showed first 75 words of 638 total…

…showed last 75 words of 638 total…rewarded with life; disobedience will be punished with destruction.” Dr. Baruch Levine interprets this saying as, “A God who rewards with life and punishes with death is one whose laws provide for death as a judicial punishment” (‘Deterrence’). Also Gen. 9:6 says, “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed.” This leads me to believe if a person kills another human being than that person deserves to die as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**