"The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors— psychology, sociology, women's studies— to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. No one is fond of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider how much you'd have to hate free will to come up with a political platform that advocates killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A callous pragmatist might favor abortion and capital punishment. A devout Christian would sanction neither. But it takes years of therapy to arrive at the liberal view." –PJ O’Rourke

The death penalty is one of those issues in which both sides are genuinely, deeply troubling. However you or I resolve them, there they still are undiminished. Anybody with a glib answer on the topic should be ignored as either brainless or heartless.

"I don't care what denomination you belong it, as long as you're embarrassed by it." -Rabbi Yitz Greenberg (unverified)