However, it is hardly ever discussed as an issue of faith. We must consider capital punishment from the aspect of a giver of life and death. He who created life and death, that He may test which of you is best in deed. He is the mighty, the forgiving. No one can die except by God's permission, the terms being fixed as by writing.
Life is sacred.
Thus it is clear that the giver of life and death is God Himself alone, and anyone acting on His behalf must act according to His principles. And we prescribe for them therein the life for a life, the eye for the eye, the nose for the nose, the ear for the ear, the tooth for the tooth, and for wounds of retaliation. Whosoever judges not by that which God has revealed, such as wrongdoers. In the New Testament, the law of retaliation was omitted. I have come not to abolish them b nto fulfill them.