[ndt]

"It's frightening how eager some people are for this woman to die."

Thats not it at all.

The problem some have, myself included, is not the outcome, it the process. The idea of the federal government stripping state powers and following the "will of the people" goes against conservative principles in two very key ways.

1 - Federal vs. States rights
2 - We are a Republic, not a Democracy. The "will of the people" is notoriously inconsistent and tends to result in the rights of the minority suffering under the desires of the majority. The Republican form of government is specifically designed to act as a buffer against mob rule.

[thoughtomator]

If under the law an innocent person can legally be put to death, that is de facto proof that the process is broken. The highest obligation of any government is the protection of the lives of its citizens. No state right trumps the federal obligation to protect the lives of its citizens. Nor is there any republic/democracy conflict as what distinguishes the former from the latter is the recognition and protection of rights, which is exactly what the federal government has acted to secure.

It's absolutely sick and twisted that people would choose this woman's life as a sacrifice to misguided and factually wrong notions of federalism and republicanism.