"It should be hard for our government to put a man to death. "
It should be hard for one person to kill another...let alone 4 people!
As founder of the Crips gang, Tookie Williams is also responsible for the lives that have been lost when wars broke out between the Crips and the Bloods. How would you like to live in a neighborhood where shootouts are frequent, where innocent children are killed by stray bullets?
Until Christ returns we will have two absolutes. One is we will have murders and two we will have out of control courts. We cannot stop the first, we can try to put controls on the second by giving another branch veto power over the death penalty.
If you wish to make that process subject to vote consider that we voted for Clinton not one time but several times.