Another Christian Anti-death Penalty Disaster
Originally sent July 27, 2025
To: Dale Chamberlain, Kainos Project and Crosswalk
ChurchLeaders.com. Ray Perez and Toni Ridgaway
Robert Jeffress. pastor, the First Baptist Church (Dallas)
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Subject: Another Christian Anti-death Penalty Disaster
Re: Rebuttal: "How I Changed My Mind on the Death Penalty", By Dale Chamberlain, ChurchLeaders.com, July 23, 2025
From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, CV at bottom
Preface
My educated assessment is that Chamberlain is the anti-death penalty norm: use anti-death penalty material, do not fact check it, nor vet nor use critical thinking, or pretend, and/or avoid pro-death penalty material and experts or act as if that were the case (1). Nothing else appears a rational, informed observation of this article.
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1) Chamberlain: "I was once told that in order to be truly pro-life, I must be pro-death penalty. The irony of that statement struck me immediately. In order to be pro-life, I must be pro-death? Can we really say that with a straight face?"
Sharp: Yes, if you research, fact check, vet and use critical thinking, it can and should be stated with a very straight face.
The death penalty/execution spares and protects innocent lives, in six ways, better than does life without parole (LWOP) (2), rationally making the anti-death penalty position anti-life and pro-murderer, with the pro-death penalty position pro-life, pro protecting more innocents (2).
Both biblically and theologically, the death penalty execution is not just pro-life, but pro eternal life (3).
2) Chamberlain: 'I have become increasingly suspicious of the idea that capital punishment is reflective of the type of justice Jesus would have us pursue. I base this suspicion in practical concerns regarding the implementation of capital punishment in the United States, the trajectory within Scripture on the issue of violence, as well as the testimony of the early church."
Sharp: How about facts, instead of your suspicion?
a) Jesus and the Death Penalty
b) The Death Penalty: Mercy, Expiation, Redemption & Salvation
c) What Did Jesus Teach about Violence and Turning the Other Cheek?
by: J. Daryl Charles, Timothy J. Demy, Crossway, May 16, 2014,
d) Many more, without suspicion:
Religion and The Death Penalty
3) Chamberlain: " The procedural injustices with how capital punishment is administered have long been established. For example, significant racial disparity exists among those who are executed. As of 2019, Black and Hispanic people represent 31% of the U.S. population but 53% of death row inmates. In 2016, the death row population was over 41% Black, even though Black people made up about 13% of the U.S. population."
Sharp: Chamberlain believes that arrests and punishments are based upon population counts, as opposed to criminal involvement. He must wonder why 50% of the prison population isn't women, instead of the current 10%.
Some reality:
For the White–Black comparisons, the Black level is 12.7 times greater than the White level for homicide, 15.6 times greater for robbery, 6.7 times greater for rape, and 4.5 times greater for aggravated assault.
For the Hispanic- White comparison, the Hispanic level is 4.0 times greater than the White level for homicide, 3.8 times greater for robbery, 2.8 times greater for rape, and 2.3 times greater for aggravated assault.
For the Hispanic–Black comparison, the Black level is 3.1 times greater than the Hispanic level for homicide, 4.1 times greater for robbery, 2.4 times greater for rape, and 1.9 times greater for aggravated assault.
For the Hispanic–Black comparison, the Black level is 3.1 times greater than the Hispanic level for homicide, 4.1 times greater for robbery, 2.4 times greater for rape, and 1.9 times greater for aggravated assault.
As the most common capital murders, those which are death penalty eligible, are rape/murders and robbery/murders, the perceived "disparities" (aka expected multiples) may be even greater than the numbers, above, as reason could predict.
White murderers are twice as likely to be executed as black murderers and are executed at a rate 41% faster than black death row inmates.
All herein, with much more:
RACE & THE DEATH PENALTY: A REBUTTAL TO THE RACISM CLAIMS
4) Chamberlain: "Other research indicates that convicts with less education and/or who come from lower economic classes are more likely to receive the death penalty relative to others accused of similar crimes."
Sharp: 99.8% of poor murderers have avoided execution.
It is, solely, dependent upon one's definitions of "wealthy" and "poor", as to whether "wealthy" murderers are any more or less likely than 0.2% to be executed, than are the "poor", based upon the vast minority of capital murders committed by the "wealthy", as compared to the vast majority committed by the "poor". By far, the greatest number of capital murder cases are rape/murders and robbery/murders, with nearly 0% of capital/death penalty eligible murders committed by the "wealthy", based upon any reasonable definition of wealthy. Obvious. herein:
Is There Class Disparity with Executions?
5) Chamberlain: ". . . since 1972 when capital punishment was deemed constitutional and reinstated via the United States Supreme Court, the United States has executed 1,348 people. During that same time, 136 people on death row have been exonerated."
Sharp: Well, no. To correct . . .
a) the death penalty has, always, been constitutional. b) death penalty statutes (not the death penalty) were found unconstitutional, in 1972 (Furman v Georgia, SCOTUS). In 1976 (Gregg v Georgia, SCOTUS), new death penalty statutes were found constitutional, within three states, with many others to follow, the modern death penalty era.
b) Your 136 "exonerated" is part of this:
The Death Row "Exonerated"/"Innocent" Frauds
71-83% Error Rate in Death Row "Innocent" Claims,
Well Known Since 1998
6) Chamberlain: "That means that for roughly every 10 people this nation has executed, there is one person who sat on death row but was innocent." "It also means that there is a non-zero chance that at least a handful of the more than 1,300 people who have been killed by the state died unjustly.
Sharp: You used the well known fraudulent 136 exonerated, which, at the time, when 8000 had been sentenced to death. That is 1 out of 59, not 1 out of 10. 0.3-0.5%, depending upon study, of those sentenced to death, have been proven factually innocent (para 5 (c), above), meaning about 1 in 250 have been found factually innocent and were released, likely the most accurate of all sanctions.
1 in 250, not 1 in 10,
There is no evidence that an innocent has been executed, in the US, past 1915, if then.
Since 1973, some 20,000 ADDITIONAL innocents have been murdered, by those KNOWN murderers that we have allowed to murder, again - recidivist murderers.
In 2023, the FBI reported 42% of homicides were not solved. In 1973, it was 29%, meaning, the 20,000 could be much higher.
7) Chamberlain: "Perhaps the perfect case study in all of these concerns is the so-called Central Park Five, a group of teen boys of color who were wrongly convicted of murder in 1989 amid a media frenzy and who were later exonerated."
Sharp: It is, absolutely, the perfect case study that I would expect from Chamberlain. It's complete, utter nonsense, Here, with all sources, if you wish to fact check and vet, yourself, now. But why would Chamberlain start, now?
The Impossibility of the Exonerated Five:
The Obvious Frauds of the Central Park Five Case
8) Chamberlain: " . . . studies into whether it is an effective deterrent are, at best, inconclusive. In fact, some jurisdictions where capital punishment is not imposed enjoy lower murder rates than jurisdictions where capital punishment is the law of the land. This reality would seem to demonstrate that capital punishment is not an effective deterrent, but the confounding variables involved are such that it seems most sensible to say that it’s inconclusive. In any event, I don’t believe deterrence to be a morally adequate—or effective—reason to execute people."
Sharp: Chamberlain, see Preface.
a) No one debates if the death penalty deters some. Of course it does and we have proof that it does (4). The informed debate is whether it is more of a deterrent than LWOP.
Nearly 100% of death penalty eligible murderers do all they can to avoid the death penalty/execution and get life instead. Why? Obvious. They fear death more than life and prefer life over death. No, they weren't deterred from committing those murders, but they reflect what all healthy non murderous 22-34 years old do. For all of history, it has been, rationally, undisputed, that what we fear more, deters more, what we prefer more, deters less. Never, rationally, challenged, except in the death penalty debate, whereby it is, irrationally, challenged, of course.
28 is the average age put on death row, so negotiations regarding a plea deals are, mostly, within 22-34.
b) As has been known for decades, murder rates can rarely, if ever, be a part of the informed deterrence debate. Let's say Iceland and its capital Reykjavik, have the lowest crimes rates in the world. Does that mean that every other country and city have no deterrence, because all have higher crimes rates. Of course not, that would be irrational. You will find a full review here (5) .
c) Some may say, I wouldn't support the death penalty unless it was a deterrent, but such includes that the guilty parties are being punished, with deterrence supported, with that guilt, overcoming your imagined illogic. They are saving innocent lives by executing guilty murderers, as opposed to sparing guilty murderers at the cost of more innocents murdered.
10) Chamberlain: "Pope John Paul II argues in his encyclical “Evangelium Vitae,” if this is our moral framework, then the state “ought not go to the extreme of executing the offender except in cases of absolute necessity: in other words, when it would not be possible otherwise to defend society.” “Today however, as a result of steady improvements in the organization of the penal system, such cases are very rare, if not practically non-existent."
Sharp: I, factually and rationally, rebut all of PJPII's death penalty teachings, herein (6). Very, very easy. Anyone, remotely, knowledgeable about the world's criminal activity and penal systems knows that PJPII's claim is false and the Church has seen fit not to correct him, since 1995 and, even worse, putting such nonsense into the 1997 amended CCC 2267.
11) Chamberlain: "Even from a fiscal perspective, it is much more costly to the state to pursue and administer capital punishment than life imprisonment. Thus, the moral argument that capital punishment is necessary to keep society safe from violent offenders ultimately falls flat."
Sharp: Chamberlain tells us that economics is the reason the safety argument falls flat. I thought the safety issue was the six ways that the death penalty protected and saved innocents more than does LWOP (2,4).
Again, on cost, Chamberlain did not fact check nor vet his anti-death penalty sources. How about now? Look at California, Nevada, Nebraska, Texas and Maryland, first, then move on (7).
12) Chamberlain: "God is at the very least acknowledging capital punishment as normative without providing any negative commentary. Further, capital punishment is definitively commanded in the Law of Moses—and not just for murder. Under the Mosaic Covenant, God commands capital punishment for, among other things, a host of sexual offenses, kidnapping, human sacrifice and idolatry, blasphemy, witchcraft, violating the sabbath, and even cursing one’s parents. So why don’t Christians advocate for capital punishment in all these cases today?
Sharp: a) Some likely do.
b) Others are aware that the US is. not a theocracy.
c) Others are aware that the Noahic Covenant is timeless, for all peoples and all times. Chamberlain shows us he is not aware: "I question the line of reasoning that suggests the completion of the Mosaic Covenant in Jesus necessarily takes us backward to the Noahic Covenant rather than forward to something entirely new." There is no forward nor backward with the NC. Chamberlain is unaware. It is timeless and infinite, as per God. Chamberlain does what many do, everything but what God has commanded, as Chamberlain confirms.
d) Somehow, Chamberlain overlooked this:
"It should not be overlooked, in seeking to discover “the mind of Jesus Christ” on the issue of murder and its punishments, that He goes beyond torah to the statement that even verbal abuse makes one deserving of “the hell of fire”.
"Far from releasing believers from prior law, Jesus was a “hard liner” who made things even tougher, stating that He has come not “to abolish the law and the prophets . . . but to fulfill them.”, offering even stronger interpretations than in the original (Matthew 5:17-22)."
"Indeed, Jesus admonishes the Pharisees not to misuse torah for their own ends, but to honor God and torah. And of all the text in the Bible, which one does Jesus select to emphasize that crucial point? 'HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER, LET HIM BE PUT TO DEATH' (Matthew 15:1-9)." Biblical scholar, Duke Divinity School, Professor Lloyd R. Bailey’s book Capital Punishment: What the Bible Says, Abingdon Press, 1987.
"Indeed, Jesus admonishes the Pharisees not to misuse torah for their own ends, but to honor God and torah. And of all the text in the Bible, which one does Jesus select to emphasize that crucial point? 'HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER, LET HIM BE PUT TO DEATH' (Matthew 15:1-9)." Biblical scholar, Duke Divinity School, Professor Lloyd R. Bailey’s book Capital Punishment: What the Bible Says, Abingdon Press, 1987.
13) Chamberlain: "How does Jesus, as the embodiment and consummation of the Law, interpret it?"
Sharp: Great question. Let's look.
a) See para 12 (d), just above and my replies within para 3, above.
b) Jesus: "Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets (Old Testament); I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them." Matthew 5:17 RSV
c) The Holy Spirit/Jesus/God, through the power and justice of the Holy Spirit, executed early Christians, Ananias and his wife, Saphira. Their crime? Lying to the Holy Spirit – to Jesus/God – through Peter. Acts 5:1-11.
No trial, no appeals, just death on the spot for these two well known early Christians. Why and what for? Lying.
d) Jesus: “You have heard the ancients were told, ˜YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER” and “Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court”. But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever shall say to his brother, “Raca”, shall be guilty before the supreme court and whoever shall say, “You fool”, shall be guilty enough to go into fiery hell.” Matthew 5:17-22.
Fiery hell is a much more severe sanction than any earthly death.
e) Jesus and the Death Penalty
f) The Death Penalty: Mercy, Expiation, Redemption & Salvation
g) What Did Jesus Teach about Violence and Turning the Other Cheek?
by: J. Daryl Charles, Timothy J. Demy, Crossway, May 16, 2014,
14) Chamberlain: "The voice of early church theologians—at least in every single extant piece of writing we have—is unanimous: Christians must never kill, whether through abortion, capital punishment, or military action."
Sharp: They would be, very, surprised, by that statement. Depending upon your definition, we might be looking at 40-50 Fathers and Doctors of the Church, with this:
"Turning to Christian tradition, we may note that the Fathers and Doctors of the Church are virtually unanimous in their support for capital punishment.", from CATHOLICISM & CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, by Avery Cardinal Dulles, First Things, April 2001,
and some reviews:
Pre Constantine, Early Christian Death Penalty Support
15) Chamberlain: "When we look at the nature of God’s progressive revelation on issues of crime and punishment, I believe what begins to emerge is an increasing emphasis on nonviolence and forgiveness."
Sharp: Re-read all the above, twice.
16) Chamberlain: "In his book “Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us,” activist Shane Claiborne aptly draws attention to the often unheard voices of victims and family members who are against capital punishment." "Many of them describe how the lengthy appeals process forced them to repeatedly relive the trauma over the course of many years, hampering their healing, all for a process that ultimately led only to more death and grief."
Sharp: Did Chamberlain fact check, vet or use critical thinking with anything in Claiborne's book? Did Claiborne? Try these:
a) Judges are the case managers, pre-trial, trial, and appeals. Irresponsibly long appeals are not the death penalty's fault, but that of irresponsible judges (8). Virginia has executed 113 murderers since 1976, within 7 years of full appeal, on average. How? Responsible judges.
Please note, no human endeavors manage themselves, they are all managed by humans. Blaming the death penalty for anything is just plain stupid. Blame the managers, the humans.
b) 95-99% of victim survivors, of those loved ones murdered in a death penalty eligible crime, support the death penalty/execution in their case, with non scientific polling (9), which is very credible, when one knows that there is 86% support, within scientific polling (9).
c) One of the frauds of anti-death penalty folks, is having the loved ones of those murdered saying they oppose the death penalty, when their murder was not death penalty eligible. This may be the most infamous one (10). Did you fact check the cases that Claiborne presented?
d) "Claiborne goes on to recount the personal stories of more than a dozen advocates against capital punishment whose loved ones were murdered." Were they murdered in a death eligible crime? Chamberlain?
Here are 600+ whose loved ones were murdered in a death penalty eligible crime and who support the death penalty/execution (1).
17) Chamberlain: “Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all,” says the Apostle Paul. “Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.’”
Sharp: It is up to government to carry out the vengeance of the Lord. The criminal justice system is the tool that God uses to carry out His vengeance, not man's. It is not up to the individuals harmed to carry out justice, but that of government. Chamberlain is, completely, unaware.
What Did Jesus Teach about Violence and Turning the Other Cheek?
by: J. Daryl Charles, Timothy J. Demy, Crossway, May 16, 2014,
18) Chamberlain: "But the Lord is just. And it’s worth noting that following the first murder in recorded history, God did not give Cain the death penalty.
Sharp: 1 a) Jesus said we must execute those who disrespect their parents, along with all the others, above and hereafter:
What of the God killings, as with b) Onan (Genesis 38:10), c) the firstborn of Egypt (Exodus 12:29), d) Pharaoh’s army (Exodus 14:28),e) Aaron’s sons (Leviticus 10:2), f) Korah (Numbers 16:32), g) David and Bathsheba’s baby (2 Samuel 12:14-15), h) Ahaziah (2 Kings 1:16-17), i) Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:20), j) Jehoram (2 Chronicles 21:14-15), k) Ezekiel’s wife (Ezekiel 24:16), l) Ananias and Sapphira, via the Holy Spirit, (Acts 5:1-10), m) Herod (Acts 12:23), and n) the many, many others scripture tells us were killed by God." (11).
Sharp 2: Chamberlain is saying the example is to save murderers, because of Cain. The opposite is the message. From 1 John 3:12 "Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother."
Cain is seen as the person who led to the Flood, who spread sin throughout the world:
"After Cain slew his brother, he “went out from the presence of the LORD” (Genesis 4:16)." " . . . this verse demonstrates that he left God's presence willingly. He traveled to “the land of Nod on the east of Eden.” There he married a woman, had a son (and additional children), and founded a society in opposition to God." " . . . his actions show that he distanced himself from God as far as he could. The rest of the passage, Genesis 4:16-24, tells of an ungodly world that sprang from him and his turning his back on Eden. It is based on physical accomplishments, as exemplified by Cain's descendants. Moses relates the first example of polygamy when Lamech took two wives, and later, the same unrepentant descendant of Cain also commits murder, apparently in revenge. The verse (Genesis 4:23) could suggest that he may have committed at least two murders. Lamech's sons were quite accomplished: Jabal originated nomadic herding of livestock. Jubal invented harp and flute music. Tubal-Cain instructed craftsmen in working with bronze and iron. In other words, they were their time's talented and famous men, but they rose to prominence in a godless and amoral society." "It appears from what the Bible tells us that none of Cain's descendants, the sons of men, survived the Flood. It was their sinful lifestyle that God had to destroy to preserve the human race (Genesis 6:5-7)." What the Bible says about Descendants of Seth (From Forerunner Commentary), Bible Tools, What the Bible says about Descendants of Seth
It is the example of why murderers should be executed. That is the lesson.
What is the first thing God established, after the flood, after Blessing Noah and his family, in Genesis 9:1-3:
Genesis 9:4-6 -- 4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being. 6 “Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind."
The very first thing, God established, after the Flood: The mandate: the death penalty for murder. Why? The example of Cain. Cain belongs to the devil, as per 1 John 3:12.
It's not a coincidence. It is the message.
In Closing
I hope that Church Leaders will publish this.
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1) Research, w/sources, w/fact checking/vetting & critical thinking, as required of everyone in a public policy debate and which rebut all anti-death penalty claims.
The media/academic norm is to use anti-death penalty material, refuse to fact check or vet it and avoid all pro-death penalty research and experts. How will you know that is true? You haven't seen this material, prior.
a) The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents
and
b) Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty Research
(7 pro-death penalty experts are included)
600+ pro death penalty quotes from murder victim's families &
3300+ from some of the greatest thinkers in history
2) Pro Life: The Death Penalty
3) The Death Penalty: Mercy, Expiation, Redemption & Salvation
more here:
Religion and the Death Penalty
4) Deterrence, Death Penalties & Executions
and
Of Course The Death Penalty Deters: A review of the debate
and
Death Penalty Deterrence: Defended & Advanced
The Death Penalty: Saving More Innocent Lives
5) "DEATH PENALTY DETERRENCE CLARIFIED"Death Penalty, Deterrence & Murder Rates: Let's be clear
and
DETERRENCE, THE DEATH PENALTY & MURDER RATES
DETERRENCE, THE DEATH PENALTY & MURDER RATES
DETERRENCE, THE DEATH PENALTY & MURDER RATES
6) Pope John Paul II: His death penalty errors
and
Catechism & The Death Penalty Problems: Section 2267:
A Rational Deconstruction of Catholic Revisionism, 1995-2019
A Rational Deconstruction of Catholic Revisionism, 1995-2019
and
The Catholic Church & The Death Penalty
13 (15) Factual Errors: 2018 CCC 2267 amendment
7) Saving Costs with The Death Penalty
8) Judicial Disaster: Their Anti-death Penalty Mess
9) a) 86% Death Penalty Support, Depending Upon Crime Committed
New Evidence of Broad Support for Death Penalty | RealClearPolicy, Joseph M. Bessette & J. Andrew Sinclair, RealClearPolicy August 16, 2021
These polls, above and below, reflect well known polls, for the last 15 years, showing much higher death penalty support than by the oft quoted, much less accurate Gallup, as even, Gallup shows (see Gallup's McVeigh poll (below) vs their standard poll)
b) Death Penalty Polling
updated 3/2023
86% Death Penalty Support, Depending Upon Crime Committed
95-99% Support From Victim Survivors in Death Penalty Cases
c) 86% Death Penalty Support: Highest Ever - April 2013
World Support Remains High
95% of Murder Victim's Family Members Support Death Penalty
86% Death Penalty Support: Highest Ever - April 2013
95% of Murder Victim's Family Members Support Death Penalty
86% Death Penalty Support: Highest Ever - April 2013
10) Rep. Renny Cushing: Death Penalty in New Hampshire:
Why Cushing is Dead Wrong
11) "Unnatural Lawyering: John Finnis’s brief against traditional Catholic teaching on capital punishment", Edward Feser, The Catholic World Report, 1/4/19, https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2019/01/04/unnatural-lawyering-john-finniss-brief-against-traditional-catholic-teaching-on-capital-punishment/
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Partial CV
Partial CV -- Dudley Sharp, independent researcher
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