Since 1976 in the United States there have been 1524 of the country's  worst convicted criminals put to death using capital punishment. Just  yesterday there were at least 2000 abortions in the United States and we  are at a supposed historic low for the past decade! In the same time  span since the death penalty has been instituted, there have been nearly  60 million of the most innocent killed! Wrap your head around this  fact. Yet, we keep hearing ad nauseam from Catholic bishops and  media outlets about the importance of opposing capital punishment! This  is of course often done at the expense of opposing the atrocity of  abortion. This is certainly an outrage for any Catholic who has a shred  of knowledge about moral theology or Sacred Scripture and the value of  the most innocent of human beings. Why are Catholics so reluctant to  stand up and call this anti-death penalty crusade the fraud for which it  is? The sanctity of human life begins with defending innocent human  life, to which most Catholics don’t have the fortitude to defend.

References

Book: Right and Reason-Fagothey

Book: The Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act- Long

Book: Roman Catechism