Should Capital Punishment Be Abolished ?

In the wake of sudden occurrences of murders across the world in the last week, most notably the Virginia Tech incident, it will be good to share relevant insights with fellow readers who may be of the view to focus too much attention upon any healing process that is perceived to be needed for society at large from the aftermath of these events.

This is so as not to be distracted and disillusioned by the moral bankruptcy of society in general, in adhering to a mentality of "moving on from one spectacle to another", which actually becomes ingrained as a conscience-searing attitude towards each individual's obligatory response to such events.

I came across this significant presentation of a biblical view of the 'death penalty' (http://www.theologyonline.com/DEATH.HTML).  I see the relevance in sharing about this on the premise of what I have observed to be a considerable following by many in the Church towards the supposed teachings about 'love', or 'love for the enemy', by Christ, which have actually become gross misinterpretations of His words, when taken in context apart from the entirety of Scripture (which includes, fundamentally, the writings of the Old Testament in which contains the Mosaic Laws).

Many in the Church like to view the concept of grace in the New Testament as an institutionary work by Christ in superceding the Law (which is fundamentally presided by the Ten Commandments of God given to Moses).  These in the Church do acknowledge that Christ came into the world not to abolish the law but to fulfil it, yet somehow adhere to the thinking of not being under the Law.  This is a predicament of erroneous belief of monumental proportion.  While not being under the Law, are they saying they are not under Christ, who is the Law, since He has fulfilled it ?  And that they (and all us) will stand before the judgment seat of Christ to testify to the things done in the body and receive the due judgement ?

I humbly plead for the reasoning over such a critical matter to the faith of many in the Church, with the presentation of this case, in the link above, to be viewed with the backdrop of the past week of tumultuous events in the world.