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The God who conceded to our weakness and *permitted* an eye for an eye (as he also permitted divorce in the Old Testament) does. Part III of my discussion of the Death Penalty is here. Bottom line, the death penalty is, even in the Old Testament, a concession, not an ideal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[278],"class_list":["post-100140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abolish-the-death-penalty"],"yoast_head":"\n
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