Allie Beth Stuckey argues Christians can be pro-life and pro-death-penalty based on biblical teachings.
BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey has challenged recent remarks by Pope Leo linking opposition to abortion with rejection of the death penalty, asserting that a person can be both “pro-life” and pro-capital punishment.
“When he’s talking about the death penalty not being pro-life, then what he is essentially saying is that God is not pro-life because God is the one that commands the death penalty,” Stuckey said.
Citing Genesis 9, she added: “Whoever sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed. For God made man in his own image,” arguing that the mandate still applies today. “God still makes us in his image. We are still made in God’s image… the value of human beings as image-bearers of God has not changed.”
While noting that scripture shows “God gives mercy to certain people,” she insisted that it does not “negate the command.”
Stuckey further referenced Romans 13, describing the government as “instituted by God to bear the sword against the evildoer… a symbol of execution.”
She rejected interpretations of the Ten Commandments that condemn all killing. “Murder and killing aren’t the same thing,” she said. “If you are killing someone in self-defense, that’s not murder.”
“So I am actually pro-life for the same reason that I am pro-death-penalty,” she concluded. “Because the only commensurate punishment for it is execution.”
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