I struggle with capital punishment as well. My understanding is that by the time you account for the legal cost of appeals etc, it costs more to put a criminal to death thanfor them to serve out a life sentence. It seems that the duty of the government is to protect the citizenry from future crimes. I agree that in our secular culture we seem to have forgotten that justice belongs to God and isn’t ours to deliver.
You’re showing way too much reason and logic for this thread.