Tfyoureye causes youto sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is much better than you lose one of your members than that your whole body be throwntohell.3° XXX Andifyourright hand causesyou sin, cutit offand throwit away, it is muchbetter that you lose one member, than that your whole body go into hell.3 XXX Butasfor the enemiesof mine, who did not want me to reign over them, BRING THEM HERE AND SLAY THEM BEFOREME.3* Indeed, the Catholic Church has never condemnedtherightof the state to inflict capital punishment.®3 In his encyclical, Evangelium Vitae (A HymntoLife), Pope PaulII acknowledge the powerofpublic authorities to prescribe the death penalty but limits its application only to cases of “absolute necessity.”3+ In Islam, the lawof equality or imposition of death penalty also obtainsin the following instances: 1. Intentional murder; 35 2. Treason; 3. Adultery,” sodomy, homosexuality, lesbianism, or unnaturalsex;38 4. Bestiality;°9 5. Highway robbery with homicide;#2 6. Spreading corruption on earth;# and 7. Apostasy# *° Matthew 5:29 3! Matthew 5:30 and 19:8-9: Mark 9:43-48 * Luke 19-27 * Record, Constitutional Commission, July 17, 1986, Vol., p.712.Quoted in People vs. Echegaray. The statementis from Bishop Teodoro Bacani. * Quoted in Echegaray,ibid., Separate Opinion, p. 31 3% Qur'an 2:178, 4:94, 5:45; 68-69 *© AbdurRahmanI. Doi, “Shariah: The Islamic Law.” 1984: London,pp. 253-254 7 Qur’an 4:15; 17:32, 24:2. See MuhammadIqbalSiddiqi, “The Penal Lawof Islam.” 1979: Lahore, . 53-68. P aran 7:80-81; 26; 165, 166; 27:18. See Muhammad IqbalSiddiqi, ibid., pp. 73-80. Schools of Thoughtin Islam are divided onthis issue. Somejurists are ofthe opinion that the penalty should be left to the discretion ofthe judge. * AbdurRahmanI. Doi, ibid., p. 243 “ Qur'an 5:33-34 1) Quran 5:32 ® Qur'an 2:217. See Muhammad Iqbal Siddiqi, “The Penal Lawof Islam.” 1979: Lahore, pp. 110-111. Death Penalty for male apostate only. 19