Originally Posted by
1hole
Tim, seems you've been quite for too long but once again you pose a pot stirring question based on a false premise; even you should understand that a legal execution is not murder and a state executioner is not a murder and trail juries are not principles in a murder.
God set a standard for violations of law; "an eye for an eye", etc. Contrary to faked howls of "liberal" outrage, that Biblical concept conveys the principle of a fair examination and, if convicted, setting a just penalty not exceeding what's right for the crime. The just penalty for a capital crime is death.
The Commandment "thou shall not kill" is an incorrect translation of the text, it simply means we are not to commit murder and most translations since the KJV do get it correct. A legal trial and conviction of a capital crime rightly ends with execution but, as specified above, a legal execution is by no means a murder.
Nor is killing in defense of self or others murder, nor is impersonal killing in times of war murder.
But you're a smart guy, I suspect you already knew all of that, didn't you?