You and I do in this conversation. You know damn well what innocent means and we do not need the state to help us discuss.
Do you have the authority to take an innocent life or don't you?
Under the right circumstances yes.
Ordinarily, I would answer no..
But, a caveat.. Who get's to decide Demi?
Who defines "innocent"? And who is charged with trying their fellow man?
"Our falling into anarchy would decide forever the destinies of mankind, and seal the political heresy that man is incapable of self-government." --Thomas Jefferson