The death penalty is good and Christian

And it needs to make a big comeback. Thoughts on Rotherham.

Hence it is that Elijah inflicted death on many, both with his own hand and by calling down fire from heaven; as was done also without rashness by many other great and godlike men, in the same spirit of concern for the good of humanity.

— St. Augustine, On the Sermon on the Mount

Morning by morning I will destroy
all the wicked in the land,
cutting off all…