Dr. Mohler writes an interesting review of a study published by Professor Walter Berns of Georgetown University in “Religion and the Death Penalty,” published in The Weekly Standard. Berns “argues that support of the death penalty is tied to belief in God. He documents the link between secularization and declining support for capital punishment.
From Mohler’s article:
“Professor Berns offers genuine insight and understanding in this argument. Indeed, I think his argument is even larger than the death penalty in its application. The absence of God — and thus the absence of a transcendent standard of judgment and morality — inevitably weakens all moral judgment. This certainly applies in the case of the death penalty, but it must also apply in other cases as well. When a transcendent standard of judgment and value disappears, the regime of therapy remains. Crime becomes anti-social behavior, wrong-doing becomes a syndrome, and moral judgment is endlessly hesitant and constantly renegotiated.”
I leave it to the reader to draw their own conclusions, but I found the article quite interesting.