Islamic, Buddhist and Mormon Views on Capital Punishment While the Islamic, Buddhist and Mormon religions all have different views on God, they very close views on capital punishment. Islam accepts it, Buddhism has no true policy, but uses it and Mormon has rules and regulations before it can be used. The Islamic faith as a religion accepts capital punishment as a reasonable and fair punishment. However, there are only certain crimes that are resolved with capital punishment. These are intended murder and fasad fil-ardh or crimes that spread mischief in the land. These include treason, apostasy, or turning away from your religion, terrorism, piracy, rape, adultery and homosexual activity (BBC- Islam). Capital punishment can only be used
