if a judge put s someone on death row is he not a sinner by disobeying the commandment thou shall not kill?

Question

and then sentence them to death?

Answer 1

In that case, we are all guilty if we vote in, and support a government that sanctions state funded murder, then we are all partly to blame. And if we are part of the voting public that did not vote, we are still to blame for not taking stronger action.

Answer 2

Interesting question that. I had not thought about that one before, though frankly, I am completely against the death sentence in any way, shape or form. Surely a murderer can be made to suffer more if he is kept incarcerated and made to do jobs which he might not enjoy, giving him time to reflect, regret etc. The death only takes minutes in the way it is done now and there is no suffering apart from instantaneous. The shaking, grimacing, convulsing etc I believe are reflex actions which happen at the moment of death not through pain. Look at how a cow is slaughtered. It will shake for a few seconds after death. Electrical impulses.

Having said that, God ordained judges, governments etc over us and we are to pray for them. We are certainly not to judge them. This member of the jury is out.

Answer 3

Silly question.

Moses commanded the people not to kill, and he followed that up with 23 crimes where he recommended the death penalty.

Both God and Moses made a distinction between wanton killing by citizens and the authority of the government to kill by the will of the people after trial of the crimes.

God himself said in Genesis 9 that we have the authority to impose the death penalty at least on murderers.

Answer 4

there IS no commandment "thou shalt not kill".

it says not murder. huge difference.

edit: and no, the death penalty(assuming that its applied in an ideal situation, if the reason its not allowable is because the possibility of innocence, that is an issue with the system, not with the punishment) is NOT murder. its an accepted punishment.

you do know that in the old testament when it said "stoning" that was a death penalty right?

Answer 5

Yes. The death penalty is murder, no matter how you talk around it. It is in direct opposition with all that is Christian, yet Christians in America still vote for pro-death politicians.
Christians can be so confusing.

Answer 6

God himself instituted the death penalty long ago. Someone has to be responsible for seeing to it that God's will is done here on earth. That's the job of judges. It's a very serious responsibility.

Answer 7

Provided the accused is found guilty in a fair trial, I see no problem with the judge passing down a death penalty. I regret that it is no longer an option in Australia or the UK and many other "civilised" countries. Perhaps it will return one day.

Answer 8

In Muslim perspective ‘not at all’ as a justice, it is his duty to uphold justice. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, life for a life. In case if a justice does not judges rightly then he will be answerable to the Lord God who is All-just and love the just men.

Answer 9

Misstranslation, the actual commandmant means "Thou shalt not Murder".

Killing is not always considered murder, killing someone to defend your own life or enforce the law for example was permited. Killing for food is again allowed.

Answer 10

God has given man permission to execute criminals but each case is to be tempered with wisdom and fairness without bribery involved and mercy is always an option. By the way murder is defined in the Bible as, "shedding innocent blood".