[PieterCasparzen]

Carrying this over to what governments in gentile society ought to do is an area that the bible does not touch on very much. My read for what it is worth is that capital punishment is permissible and expected to be normative for certain crimes, but not an absolute in-every-case requirement. Others differ and this gets into gnatty areas that are beyond my scope. The country would do well to have a mass remembering of God and that would weigh almost infinitely more than details of civil discipline.

Blood is required; if you recall the infant son died, that was the penalty.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And if I slew your son for you murdering they’d count me crazy. This is clever nit picking.