A society that lets premeditated murderers live—let alone paroles them from prison, as commonly occurs today—is, from the Bible’s perspective a polluted culture for “blood pollutes the land, and the land can have no expiation for blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who sheds it” (Numbers 35:33).
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Biblical Literacy, pg.407
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