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Arguing For and Against Capital Punishment

May 19th, 2015 | 3 min read

By Jake Meador

The response from younger evangelicals to the Tsarnaev ruling last week was predictable enough. It amounted to what Derek Webb sang many years ago in "My Enemies are Men Like Me": "Peace by way of war is like purity by way of fornication / It's like telling someone murder is wrong / And then showing them by way of execution."

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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