Oh, I used to be all for the death penalty because I saw justice in it. But as the years went by, about 50 of them, I began to see more and more that if something were true it should hold together, and the death penalty with all its irreversible flaws, mistakes, and lack of hope, did not hold together for me. More recently, and as a support of that view, I saw the mercy and grace of judgment, punishment, and justice already executed. I also knew that if the death penalty was a false choice, there had to be true, viable, and workable alternatives which I found and talk about.
I hear you.