“Death penalty in keeping with principles of the Bible” (Reading Eagle, June 4), which asserts that the Hebrew Bible generally supports capital punishment, brings to mind comedian Lewis Black ...

I’m writing in response to “The time to end the death penalty in Pennsylvania is at hand” (Reading Eagle, May 31). While one sympathizes with Vicki and Sylvester Schieber, whose daughter ...

The Christian Bible accepts this principle in John 8:17. In Jewish law, two witnesses must testify that they warned the assailant he could be sentenced to death if he commits murder.