i think that if society was set up to deal harshly with those who commit capital crimes, there would be much fewer people committing capitol crimes
and the lives impacted by those who commit actions that should be capitol crimes would never be impacted
So what about for instance, you have a child, brought up by drug dealing parents, heroine addicts themselves, as he gets older, he is also sent out to sell, he's never heard anything about God and thinks that what he is doing is alright because he's never known anything else. Would you have him executed?
Or a girl, raped by her father and pregnant, again never knowing God not knowing what to do, she is advised to have an abortion, and she does, would you have her executed?
I'm totally against drug dealing and abortion etc. But, I think we walk on a fine line when we start just saying that we should execute others for what they do. Especially if they don't know God and we don't know what they've been through.
We have to be careful, because knowing God we can be much worse than those we condemn and we should do look at our own hearts and make sure that they are right before God and if we are right before him, then he will give us wisdom to judge others by his word.
The law courts will deal with the sins of the world and God deals with the sins of the heart, those born of God should just bare witness to the truth and his word will judge and leave the final judgment in his hands.