" an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth " It is the most known and popular law of retaliation from the latin expression talis tale which means: such, such class, so important, so large and in correlation with qualis quale: such...which, i.e. According to the norm that comes in Exodus 21, 23-25, second book of the old testament, if someone does harm to another must pay in equal measure: if he kills someone must pay with his life. The message of Christ in the New Testament attempts to overcome this law with the possibility of forgiveness. The Jewish law of retaliation has helped many to try to justify the death penalty