Moral issues and the Justice system or something like that

I don't think it's a good idea to avoid pondering. The world needs more pondering, not less.In the specific case, I don't think the good things that the culprit may have done have any relevance. The only question is, "Do we need to protect society from this guy?" and the answer is, "Yes."

Not according to Jesus:

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John 8:7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

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You're the one who is misreading the Bible. It's right there, as plain as day.

It certainly has to do with justice systems. Jesus was directly addressing the justice system of the Jews, in which the people carried out the verdict themselves. The clear meaning of his words was that nobody is qualified to impose a death sentence - not a lynch mob and not a judge and jury. That is not what God told Noah.

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Genesis 9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

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"At the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man". That is clearly not about capital punishment. Beasts are not executioners. It's a prediction of violence against man, by beasts and by other men. Exactly. You are not allowed to use your twisted version of "what God told Noah" to overrule Jesus.

I didn't say He did. I said you contradicted Him.God also forbade capital punishment for Cain, the first murderer - and what He said to Noah had nothing to do with capital punishment.

It shows that the fetus was considered the property of the husband. Killing it was like killing his ox. It was not considered murder.

Chapter and verse?It was okay to kill a rebellious son:

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Deuteronomy 21:18-20 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

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At least he got a trial. Note that it doesn't say "child", it says "son", presumably of any age. Also, contrast with Jesus' prodigal son story.

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Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee....

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That's before we were in the womb. He knew our atoms. It has nothing to do with abortion. Of course it does. Property is not human. Humans are not property.

Innocence or guilt is irrelevant because the fetus was considered to be property. Property is neither innocent nor guilty. You "understanding" is often contradictory to what the Bible actually says.And you haven't backed up your claim that, "The OT doesn't regard killing the fetus as murder but it does regard it as a child."

Yes indeed. That idea came from the Bible - and was rejected by our increasingly-secular society.

And those practices were all justified with quotes from the Bible. And you're still doing it.

Yes. You have justified slavery yourself, using the Bible, right on this very forum.

I did read. And everybody else can read too, so they know what the Bible says and they know what you said. You have used the Bible to justify slavery, as I said.

Yeah, right back atcha - only I actually quote the Bible so those people can see what it actually says. You, on the other hand, have nothing to back up the apologetic claims that you have memorized.

It dehumanizes the whole society. You can't affirm the value of life by killing people. We should be telling the Ted Bundys, "We don't kill people, no matter what. We're better than that."