We just agreed that God, being love, would not kill whom he loves. And he loves everyone; he does not discriminate, unlike us. How then can you now say that God commanded the killing of some in Old Testament Times? Can't you see that you are back to being self- contradictory?

For a Christian to justify the death penalty morally is to go against the sure belief that God is love. And, as we've agreed, God does not kill those whom he loves. And he loves all. Therefore we must love all. Practically in one respect, that means aspiring not to kill them.

Which brings me to Bin Laden, on a purely human level, I'd have shot him, nursed him back to health, and then shot him some more. And so on, ad infinitum if possible. But that's me ('I', of course. Was being colloquial) However, we are not called to be our natural selves alone, but this transformed into God's image through Grace.