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"thou shalt not kill" is, IMO, one of the most horrid translations of biblical text. It is more accurately translated as "thou shalt not take innocent life."
Nonetheless, I think that the New Testament gives good support for an argument against the death penalty and I know that the Catholic Church only supports the death penalty in situations where it is not possible to greatly diminish the criminals capability to inflict pain on other people - thus, pretty much never in the modern world. Personally, I am also of this belief: that the death penalty is an unecessary evil in today's world, when life imprisonment can accomplish the same thing just as easily
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