While the law of the land required the capital punishment of witches, no blame ought to be attached to judges and jurors for discharging their respective duties in carrying it into execution.
For how else can they say, as I have known some say, that capital punishment is wrong, because "we have no right to usher a man into the presence of his Maker."
Capital punishment has been abolished in some countries, likewise torture, confiscation, corporal punishment.
But some say that capital punishment is inconsistent with the mild religion of Christ—the religion of mercy and love.
According to one authority, capital punishment may be divided into two kinds—beheading and strangulation.
