Why I Approve of Giving the Death Penalty to Big Time Narcotic Dealers

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It's getting annoying how politically correct organizations like the Vatican, Amnesty International, Global Thinkers and the United Nations (just to name a few) insist that death penalty for drug dealers is "inhuman". On the contrary, these politically correct organizations are the ones violating the right to life. I would use the Bible to defend my stand to why drug dealers should be among people who can be considered for the death penalty:
Exodus 21:23-25 - And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Many try to misquote Exodus 20: 13 without knowing the context that death penalty has been ordered in the next chapter. The Hebrew word for kill is "rasah" which translates into murder in the modern day language. Did you know that the Bible actually commands death penalty for murderers? God ordered the death penalty for murderers:
Numbers 35:16-17 - And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Do you know how many families are ruined because of narcotics and how many people die from narcotic addiction or from people who are addicted to narcotics at a daily basis? It shows that the narcotic trade industry violates the right to life. Those narcotic dealers are murderers. Even if they didn't kill the person themselves but they still committed murder. It's like how perjury that leads to an innocent person's execution is condemned as murder in the Bible and false witnesses are to be put to death (Deuteronomy 24:7). Ahab and Jezebel may have not directly killed Naboth themselves but they were still condemned for murder because they masterminded it (1 Kings 21). I still remembered how an infant was murdered and its insides were used to stuff narcotics. That's a violation to the right to life. Yet some people continue to shout foul against the death penalty calling it "state murder" never mind that the right to life is violated all the time by the narcotic industry. 

One could say that I should also call for the banning of kitchen knives, carpenter's tools or anything that was used in a murder scenario. I could agree that the problem isn't always the object used but how it's used. Guns aren't the problem but irresponsible gun owners. Some things need to be banned like high-lead containing products or any dangerous kind of food additive. Banning narcotics is no different than banning the use of household cleansers that contain dangerous chemicals or food products that contain dangerous additives. There's a difference between a kitchen knife and narcotics. You use a kitchen knife to make your meals or to do a crime while you only use narcotics to indulge in one's sinful pleasures. 

Besides, the New Testament still tasks the death penalty with this verse:
Romans 13:3-5 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

It's also not surprising that the Roman Catholic institution has been vicious against the death penalty for heinous crimes because of who it usually targets and destroys when put properly. I'm not surprised considering that a lot of people involved in the narcotic trade are very religious Roman Catholics. They give huge donations for the "greater glory of God". If they lose these people then they begin to lose more generous donors in the process aside from dirty politicians who abuse their God-given position or other immoral people that are very religious Roman Catholics. It's even more hypocritical they keep saying "Thou shalt not kill." never mind that the Inquisition has murdered millions of people for simply not complying with the Vatican's demand to convert to Roman Catholicism.

Should Christians go out there and start shooting drug dealers or politically correct people? Should they take the law into their hands against evildoers? Death penalty for people who have committed heinous crimes is a state responsibility and it's not a church activity. What Christians can do right now would be to educate people of the consequences of narcotics and to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to drug addicts who have surrendered to the law as well as anyone who's involved in the drug trade. This also means preaching to those in the death row because such people are still the mission field. While the death penalty is not invalidated in John 8:1-11 but we have to remember this lesson:
Before you take the law out of God's hands and into your hands please make sure you haven't sinned at all.

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