6. Bible Prescribes Death Penalty, Vedas Preach Reformation

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BIBLE PRESCRIBES DEATH PENALTY, VEDAS PREACH REFORMATION

1. BIBLICAL VERDICT OF DEATH PENALTY 

The Holy Bible prescribes death penalty by stoning for a number of offences, sometimes trivial.  �Rocks were hurled at the victim, until he or she became a bloody pulp, and the mass of flesh ceased to move.� This horrible method of execution was carried out in Europe for several years in the past.

(i) Death penalty by stoning for blasphemy

28. �16. And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him;���

- Leviticus, 24/16