I never claimed to base our society's legal code on Christianity or any other religion. You appear to have taken my throwaway line at the end of my post for the heart of my argument. It wasn't. It was a "but what do I know?" throwaway.

The heart of my argument is that killing killers is (1) illogical, and (2) doesn't deter murderers, and (3) contributes to the societal attitude that people are disposable, and thus that killing isn't really all that bad.

Alex