When the crowd at last week's Republican candidates debate applauded the execution of hundreds of men in Texas since 2000, it was not the first time I'd heard people celebrate death-recall America's response to what seemed, at that point, the largely symbolic death of Osama bin Laden.
As Christians, we must never revel in death itself; we worship the Lord of Life. But are there cases in which God can use the death penalty to accomplish His plan in the lives of the condemned? Of course.
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