[PapaBear3625]

However, the statement is irrelevant to the matter at issue, which is whether one appointed to the Court would hew to the Constitution: an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court would not be in a position to sentence criminals to death nor to enforce jury recommendations of death.

But she WOULD be hearing cases arguing the constitutionality of the death penalty itself, and circumstances where it could be applied, which would impact whether the death penalty would be imposed in the case being appealed.

List of United States Supreme Court decisions on capital punishment

[aposiopetic]

Yes, and this goes to the question of whether she would hew to the Constitution, not the red herring of whether she would impose the death penalty, which she would not be in a position to do.