Murderer: covered in sangre
Murderer: blood on your shoulders

Karma: how does it feel?
Karma: to take a life?
Wailin’: wailing in vain
Wailin’: you’ll reap what you sow!

Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill

Shot!
Robbing your family
Robbing your friends
Robbing your best friends, you
Rapist: you’ll have no redemption
Burn, burn, burn

Its comin’ back around at you
Its comin’ back around
I might just come after you
I just might come after, but you’ll never know
Broke the first commandment

Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou…

Face your judgment!

–Soulfly, “First Commandment”–

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Whoever sheds man’s blood,
by man his blood shall be shed;
for in the image of God He made man.
–Genesis 9:6 (NKJV)–

He who strikes a man so that he dies
shall surely be put to death.
–Exodus 21:12 (NKJV)–

The one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.
–Romans 13:4 (NIV)–

The agent of the law who puts the criminal to death is not guilty of murder; rather, it is the law itself which puts him to death…those who have waged war at God’s command, or in accordance with His laws, have represented in their persons the public justice or the wisdom of government, and in this capacity have put to death wicked men; such persons have by no means violated the commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.”
–St. Augustine, The City of God 1.21–

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John Grisham, The Innocent Man (Vintage, 2012).

Dr. Shelton Smith, Capital Punishment Revisited (Sword of the Lord, 2000).