Permit me to begin this important Wilderness Voice with an imperative and irrefutable Biblical truth. The Bible teaches capital punishment! In Genesis 9:6, God’s Word definitely declares: “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image” (ESV). This verse, spoken to Noah by God, after the destruction of the prediluvian world, which was “filled with violence” (Genesis 6:11, 13), is much more than what first meets the eye, for it is not only the divine sanctioning of capital punishment, but also the divine ordination of human government. To prevent the earth from once again being filled with violence, God ordained human government to deter it, by giving government...