Dr Frank Turek defends dying penalty with Christian religion backing

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Dr. Frank Turek defended the death penalty , saying it's supported by Christian religion.

The Christian creator and speaker informed Fox Information Digital about why he helps the dying penalty when there may be "little question" that the person charged with Charlie Kirk's assassination is certainly responsible.

"Clearly, we have now to do that advisedly. We've to verify past any cheap doubt that the particular person is certainly responsible," Turek mentioned.

Turek pointed to Bible passages he believes help the dying penalty.

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Charlie Kirk throws hats to the gang after arriving at Utah Valley College on Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Photographs)

"In Romans 13, it says that the chief doesn't bear the sword for nothing, which means the governor or the king does not bear the sword for something," mentioned Turek. "That is a reference to capital punishment. Additionally, when Jesus was earlier than Pilate, Pilate mentioned to Jesus, 'Do not you recognize I've the authority to kill you?' And Jesus mentioned, ‘Sure, you do, however you get that authority from above.’"

Turek defined, "In different phrases, the federal government has the precise to inflict capital punishment for capital crimes."

He mentioned one can't "flip the opposite cheek" in instances of extreme crimes such as murder , including that this command has been misunderstood.

"Folks will say, ‘What about flip the opposite cheek?’ That is the place folks do not appear to grasp. There are completely different instructions for people and completely different instructions. If governments have been to all the time flip the opposite cheek, we might have anarchy, no one can be safe, folks can be murdered, folks can be raped, folks would have their livelihoods stolen from them."

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Turek mentioned, "The Creator grants rights and the federal government is meant to safe these rights from a biblical perspective."

"James Madison famously mentioned, ‘If males have been angels, no authorities can be obligatory.’ Would we'd like a authorities if all people was angelic? No, there'd be no want for a authorities. The explanation we have now a authorities is to guard the harmless folks from evil, to guard rights, to safe rights," Turek mentioned. "When a authorities does not try this, it is an illegitimate authorities."

Turek mentioned the unique founding of America exhibits that rights come from God, not authorities.

As Thomas Jefferson wrote within the Declaration of Independence, "We maintain these truths to be self-evident, that every one males are created equal, that they're endowed by their Creator with sure unalienable rights , that amongst these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

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Dr. Frank Turek speaks throughout a memorial service for slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., on Sept. 21, 2025. (Daniel Cole/Reuters)