Is Such Execution Murder?

© 2016 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

Governments and societies have long used execution to eliminate malicious people. To deter crime, vicious Roman criminals were sentenced to slow, agonizing deaths. They would be nailed, alive, to a wooden stake or cross where they would hang, suffering, for days.

In our country, we have sought to use execution sparingly. Our laws provide that no person is to be executed without due process of law in a trial by jury. Even then, very few vicious criminals are ever executed in our country. Instead, we preserve them, at great public expense, in our overcrowded prisons. Some are even released back into society as free citizens.

Unfortunately, some human beings have been stripped of these protections.  During the days of slavery, slaves were considered property. Their owners had great freedom to punish and even execute them. Though, thankfully, we have since repudiated this evil practice, we have proceeded to strip an even more innocent group of people of their protection under our laws. Thousands of unborn babies are executed daily. Though some say these babies are not yet people, Scripture shows this to be false. King David acknowledged that, even in the earliest stages of his growth in the womb, he was important to God. Speaking to God, David said,

“For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. … Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.” (Psalm 139:13-16)

Some in this nation are encouraging the execution of these developing babies for whom God has great compassion. These executed babies have been denied legal protection. Receiving neither representation nor legal defense in a court of law, they are quietly delivered to their deaths and even the eventual sale of their body parts. This is sin!

Remember the Roman form of execution we just mentioned? It was called “crucifixion.” The most famous crucifixion of all time was the execution of the most pure, innocent being of all eternity. He is God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He willingly suffered execution for the sins of His people. He rose victoriously from the dead! He, alone, can save a sinner.

Have you confessed your sins to the Savior and asked Him to forgive you, or will you suffer eternal execution at His hand?

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