Why is the death penalty imposed on criminals?

According to the law of Manu, the father of humanity, the death penalty is inflicted on a murderer for his own good, because if he does not undergo this punishment, he risks committing more crimes, the consequences of which he will have to pay in his future lives. This is why it is just that criminals be punished by the king, or by the head of state, just as it is beneficial for those who commit very serious offenses to meet their death by the grace of the Lord.

It is written: “You shall not kill” and “If anyone kills with the sword, he must be killed by the sword.”

If it is written: “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” it is to encourage people not to kill and to tell those who risk it that they will suffer the same thing, with added suffering. It is simply the application of the law of karma, the law of action and reaction, also called the law of cause and effect.

True social justice consists in sentencing such a wretch to the death penalty, in order to spare him hell. The execution of a murderer by the state represents a benefit to the guilty party, for he will thus not have to suffer terribly for his crime in his next life.

A murderer is equally a murderer who kills a land or aquatic animal.

He who allows an animal to be killed and he who commits the murderous act, he who sells the flesh of the slaughtered animal and he who prepares it, he who distributes such food and, finally, he who eats it—all are murderers, all equally liable to the punishments prescribed by the laws of nature.

When a king or head of state sentences a criminal to death, he acts in the best interest of the guilty party, who will thus be freed from the consequences of all his sinful acts. You shall harm no one, and you shall not kill. There is no justification for taking a life.

The suffering we endure today is the exact consequences of the abominable acts we committed in our previous lives. Whoever commits murder, even against a monster, will suffer greatly in their future life and will be killed in turn. Sentencing a murderer to death spares them great suffering in the next life. We can escape human justice, but God's justice is impossible.

Suffering is useful and necessary because, through the pain we feel, it allows us to understand what malicious thoughts, words, and actions generate, and thus to make the firm resolve never again to do evil in any form whatsoever, to anyone, human, animal, or plant.

Suffering is useful and necessary because it allows us to reduce the mass of culpable acts accumulated in all our previous lives and to erase the sins inherent in these malicious, even criminal, acts.

Suffering is useful and necessary because it allows us to have a clear idea of ​​the pain felt by the person we harmed in our previous life, being indifferent to their cries. It also allows us to know that “what we have done will be done to us.”

Suffering is useful and necessary because it allows us to become aware of our malicious acts, to do penance, to repent, to ask for forgiveness, to turn to God, to respect and definitively apply divine precepts, laws, and commandments.