Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us Audiobook (Free)

Within this reasoned exploration of justice, retribution, and redemption, the champ of the new monastic motion, popular loudspeaker, and writer of the bestselling The Irresistible Revolution gives a robust and persuasive appeal for the abolition of the death penalty.

The Bible says an eye for an eye. But is the state’s acquiring of a existence true-or actually practical-punishment for convicted prisoners? In this thought-provoking function, Shane Claiborne explores the issue of the death penalty and the comparison between punitive justice and restorative justice, questioning our notions of fairness, revenge, and absolution.

Using an historical lens to body his argument, Claiborne pulls on testimonials and examples from Scripture showing the way the death penalty is not the ideal of justice that many believe. Not merely is a lifestyle lost, so too, is the possibility of mercy and sophistication. In Executing Sophistication, he reminds us from the divine power of forgiveness, and evokes the essential truth of the Gospel-that no-one, even a criminal, is certainly beyond redemption.