[Luddite Patent Counsel]

You and "sister" Prejean (did she get that title at the same store as "Sistah Soulja"?) should brush up on your Catholic doctrine. The Church has always supported capital punishment as a prerogative of the State. As St. Thomas Aquinas put it:

"The slaying of an evil-doer is lawful inasmuch as it is directed to the welfare of the whole community, and therefore appertains to him alone who has charge of the community. Now the care of the common good is entrusted to rulers having public authority; and therefore to them is it lawful to slay evil-doers, not to private individuals." (ST, IIa IIae, q. 64, art. 3)

[Pinko]

You may want to take a look at Pope John Paul II's Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of LIFE) from 1995.