and if the Bible had anything to do with the appropriateness of punishments in what is supposed to be a secular legal system, then this will matter.
no Bible quotes, please. i'm so sick of it being used as some sort of trump card, or even this feigning that it's remotely relevant to what we're talking about.
i don't give a shit what Jesus would or would have wanted. Jesus isn't sentencing people to various punishments based on their crimes. Jesus has nothing to do with this one way or another.
let's talk about the Constitution or something that, you know, has something to do with the situation at hand.