The Pope Says No to the Death Penalty. Does the Bible? (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

When Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty "inadmissible," critics fired back that he'd clearly never read the Bible, a book that prescribes death for everything from kidnapping to gathering sticks on the Sabbath. 

But the Pope's argument is the same made-in-God's-image reasoning from Genesis 1:27 that abolitionists used against the Bible's slavery texts, and Jesus himself seems to land on both sides in the Gospel of Matthew. So does the Bible support the death penalty? It says the Pope is wrong, and it says he's right. 

Chapters:

0:00 Welcome in
1:35 The Pope's death penalty post
2:26 Hasan and Christa Pike
3:57 The Bible's capital crimes
5:59 "You've never read the Bible"
6:48 Image of God vs. slavery
9:04 Pope Leo's AI encyclical
11:09 A pastor's double standard
12:16 Feelings first, reasons later
15:48 Did Jesus accept execution?
16:21 Cast the first stone
17:07 An eye for an eye
19:06 Just interpersonal ethics?
21:33 Matthew 15's death clause
22:45 One gospel, two answers
24:24 Genesis 9:6 cuts both ways
26:43 The forgotten blood rule
27:57 The Bible says both
28:36 Wrap-up and thanks

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/wvq6kcqzjRE?si=3UrWZQclyO4xqhZU