Hey guys, welcome to relatable.

Today we are finally going to talk about the death penalty.

I've been wanting to talk about this since January.

Well, I haven't been wanting to talk about it because it's a very sad subject to me.

I don't like thinking about it.

I don't like talking about it, but it is a very contentious, ethical, moral, and theological

issue that I think is important for us to be able to confront biblically and be able

to talk about not just in the secular political sense, but also with fellow believers with whom

we disagree.

This conversation was brewing back in January pretty heavily, especially in Christian

circles due to the executions of several black Americans that some people claimed were

innocent or just claims should not be executed.

The Trump administration actually reinstated the federal death penalty after several years

of it not being instated.

There's been a lot that we've had to talk about since December.

So I just haven't been able to sit down and organize all the research that's required

for it.

And even today, we're not going to be able to get into every single argument for and

against the death penalty.

I really want to focus on whether or not there is a biblical backing for it or whether it

is categorically, biblically, and morally wrong.

This is a subject that I have been doing a lot of reading on a lot of research.

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