Do you believe that there are crimes so heinous, brutal, and monstrous, that anything short of capital punishment is a miscarriage of justice?
Sounds to me to be an issue of mistrust of government.
I think we also are right to identify as abomination the rationalism that “it wasn’t the truth or falsity, but the severity, of the accusations.”
I don’t think Nebraska was a particular example of the problem, though.
Isn't execution premeditated murder?