Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom you killed at Tabor? They answered, As you are, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
The efforts of our current society to abolish capital punishment is not merely a mistake; it is a violation of the law of God!  The shameful leniency of the judiciary in our own day is having exactly the same effect that God's leniency with Cain produced, filling the entire world with bloody violence.  Any human society that wishes to bring about the universal bloodshed and violence which precipitated the Great Deluge could not possibly choose any quicker way to do so than to reject the commandment of God that orders human societies to execute murderers.