". . . The moral truth, based in the jury's intuition . . . is that mysterious mix of reason and emotion that combines to determine whether a person really, not merely rationally, desrves to die."
The Death Penalty as Delineated by the Old Testament
From Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel to Noah and the Flood to Abraham and Sodom to Moses and the Ten Commandments, Biblical passages trace the roots for how modern society deals with the execution of killers.