he's opposed to Capital Punishment.
...and he likes to smoke dope on his boat in international waters.
I remember Buckley defending capital punishment in his column and in his magazine.
That's news to me. If you read this recent article, he sure sounds like he wants to save it for appropriate cases. He didn't appreciate what damage that the unhinged prosecution of the death sentence for Zacarias Moussaoui in Virginia could cause for the death penalty in the future when its abolitionists might have more of the ear of public opinion.
"If they didn't execute Moussaoui, why should they execute me? One can hear this coming from the child murderer or serial killer."
--snip--
"Presumably if torture were permitted, the prosecution would have pleaded with the jury to let in a little of that to avenge the 40 lives lost on Flight 93."